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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
Superimpose the 1971 Winnipeg city limits on a 2013 map of Winnipeg. Then again, places like Old St.Boniface, Old St.James, and Brooklands would hardly be considered suburbs.
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My original answer was going to be "the old City of Winnipeg is urban" but yes, there are definitely urban parts to the other old municipalities.
Here is my quick and dirty and hopefully not too arbitrary take on what is urban in Winnipeg.
The area inside the red lines are to me, undisputably urban. This obviously goes well past downtown, but includes neighbourhoods that have dense areas with walkable streets and local commercial strips. You could live in these areas without a car and not have much trouble (even though some areas in that zone are better suited to a car-free lifestyle than others).
The areas inside the blue lines are what I'd consider the "semi-urban" areas that, while generally suburban in nature still have some pretty strong urban characteristics. This mostly captures the older suburbs or ones that are dense enough to support a lot of local amenities, e.g. the Henderson strip, old St. James and south River Heights.
The areas outside the coloured lines are what I'd consider to be suburban, ones where you will more or less need a car to get by (or be prepared to put up with a lot of inconveniences).
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