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Originally Posted by Harrison
I don't know if 'Downtowns' are standardized geographies for StatsCan, but I hope that is something they look at in the future. I realize the 'Downtown' neighbourhood in Edmonton has defined boundaries but the scale of those City Center/Downtown etc. neighbourhoods is different for each city.
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StatCan link shows the standardized process. Edmonton is simply larger and including "Oliver" etc. met the criteria. Its StatCan that determine what is a downtown geographic area. Now if we could increase the density we could catch up to Calgary and Montreal as to people km2 in the downtown. Map of Edmonton and Vancouver Downtown:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/91f0015m/2021001/m-c/m-c-edmonton-eng.pdf?st=H7jxBG2m
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/91f0015m/2021001/m-c/m-c-vancouver-eng.pdf?st=NXZgnF8f
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/91f0015m/2021001/m-c/m-c-calgary-eng.pdf?st=A_4rBlT2