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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
I really question the accuracy of this statement about sprawl. Toronto's sprawl is horrendous. Calgary has very little high rise development away from downtown and is notoriously low density. Vancouver's sprawl is quickly eating up the Fraser Valley. Sure, the older parts of Montreal have good density but Montreal was Canada's largest city before the post-war sprawl era. Montreal still has its share of sprawl but whether its less is more a factor of its economic decline since the 1970s.
You can make this statement which is applicable across the country. The more prosperous a city has been in the post-war era, the more sprawl it has.
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Ottawa has the greenbelt. Which is one of the biggest factor for it's low density.
"Old suburbs" are still dense compared to other North-American cities. Le Plateau in Montréal is one of the most dense, even with the lack of skyscrapers.
Montréal sprawl started in the late 70s early 80s. Montréal Island still had free land back then, plus the fact that bridges were needed to cross helped reducing sprawl.
For the GTA:
Population (2006)
- CMA Total 5,113,149
- CMA Density 866.4/km2 (2,244/sq mi)
Greater Montréal:
Population (2009)
- Total 3,814,700
- Density 853.6/km2 (2,210.8/sq mi)
Greater Vancouver:
- Total 2,116,581 (2006)
- Density 735.6/km2 (1,905.2/sq mi)
Calgary Region:
- Total 1,230,248 (2006)
- Density 242.03/km2 (619.6/sq mi)
National Capital Region:
- Total 1,130,761 (2006)
- Density 197.82/km2 (506.4/sq mi)
Ottawa: (city proper)
- City 812,129 (2006)
- Density 292.3/km2 (757.1/sq mi)
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