Calgary Construction XXVI

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You can debate it all you want, but the bottom line is that the word 'inner' is used in reference to a location. Inner city simply means the inner part of a city, and folks it doesn't get any simpler than that.

Originally Posted by Bad Grizzly

The word inner-city, is a term, just because it has the word “inner”in it doesn’t mean it’s entirely about a location. Anyone who doesn’t understand the negative connotation to inner-city, has been in a cave for the last 50 years.

Originally Posted by suburbia

Inner Sprawl as opposed to Inner City. There is no such thing as Inner City Sprawl, because Inner City should not have sprawl in it.

Calgary is not a world city that can manipulate globally accepted terms such as Inner City. And including areas of sprawl in Inner City is just so ridiculous.

Originally Posted by suburbia

I don't consider Falconridge or Erin Woods really to be high density. I would say that you would have a point with Forest Lawn, particularly given the Beltline and Forest Lawn are #1 / #2 on the police prostitution rankings.

At best, I think a small portion of Sunnyside is true inner city, and the southern half of Bridgeland. Heck, the Sunnyside NIMBYs defend having a curling rink and associated parking lot. That's not inner city, that's inner sprawl. There is no way that curling rink fits with the concept of inner city. The Beltline is really the gold standard (apologies for the oxymoron) when it comes to inner city and what the term inner city means in the rest of the world.