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Originally Posted by zoomer
Also nice Kamloops pictures, it’ll be interesting to see how that city evolves. I also wonder why Nanaimo never took off like Kelowna - not in terms of population growth, but downtown development and density.
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Canadian cities typically need to reach a certain size before one sees tall buildings proliferating. Usually when a city gets to 150,000+ it starts developing that way. Kamloops (116,896) and Nanaimo (117,144) will surely follow a similar path as the substantially more populous Kelowna (222,748). They're just not big enough to warrant it yet.
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Originally Posted by zoomer
I used to think that about Saskatoon - I'm still blown away by it's tremendous population growth the past couple of decades, especially after the provincial growth was so stagnant before.
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Saskatoon is another case in point. A city can't sprawl out endlessly. Saskatoon reached a size where it's still expanding outwards but it's also starting to grow vertically. It will happen in Regina, Lethbridge, and Red Deer too. They'll all reach a tipping point in the next 10-20 years. That's under the assumption that their population continues growing at a decent clip though.
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