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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Vancouver's core is certainly dense by any comparison but it is not as dense as it looks from the air.
All those condos certainly hold a lot of buildings and there are a lot of condos but they are deceptive. Vancouver condos basically max out at 35 stories and few are that tall but the real difference is in the footprint. Vancouver has a lot of buildings but those buildings don't house near as many people as a similar height building would anywhere else in the country.
People in Vancouver don't seem to realize just how incredibly skinny their towers are. when I go back to Ontario I am reminded of just a petit Vancouver buildings are. Vancouver's skyline makes the city look the densest in Canada but it's doesn't hold near the population of downtown Toronto.
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I guess I'm a stickler for factual information. I presume you don't actually know what the population of DT Toronto and DT Vancouver are, so I'll provide some numbers courtesy of isaidso. The numbers are accurate because I double checked them.
Downtown Toronto:
population: 175,064
approx. area: 5.0 square miles
approx. density: 35,000 ppsm
Greater Downtown Vancouver:
population: 163,753
approx. area: 5.3 square miles
approx. density: 31,000 ppsm
Obviously Toronto has a larger core population, but they're pretty close. The peninsula has 100 000 people in an area of 2.2 sq miles. I don't know what Toronto's inner 2 square mile population would be though.
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