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Old 08-20-2010, 07:09 AM
 
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All other cities such as Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, even Ottawa have a city population and a metro population, the latter being significantly larger.

But I notice that Calgary is an exception. Its city and metro population are similar. Toronto/Montreal's metro is twice as the city, Vancouver 4 times.

Is it because it is a relatively new city which hasn't developed a "metro Calgary area" yet?
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Old 08-20-2010, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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If you look at a map showing Calgary city limits you will see that the city territory itself covers the urbanized area plus a very large non-urbanized area going far beyond the city. So the city has lots of room to grow beyond its limits.

Plus the area around Calgary is not like eastern North America with many older small towns in close proximity to big cities that end up being suburbanized quite intensely.

The surroundings of Calgary are much lower density farms, ranches and rangelands. This is not typically what you find around cities in the east like Toronto, Montreal, etc.
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Old 08-23-2010, 01:10 AM
 
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Default Ir's true

Calgary has no "suburbs" like Vancouver or Toronto (or even Edmonton). The entire population of Calgary is within the limits of the City of Calgary proper - whereas in Vancouver, for example, about 400,000 of the 2.1 million residents of "Metro Vancouver" live in Surrey. Calgary does have other towns within its "census metropolitan area" which add to the area's population....but not by much; the largest is Airdrie (just north of Calgary) with a population of around 30,000. However, it is totally outside of the City of Calgary and so does not count towards "Calgary's" population. All of Calgary's 1.1 million folks live in the city itself. Interesting fact: Calgary has actually absorbed 6 smaller towns as it has grown - all of which are now just areas within the city limits.
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Old 08-24-2010, 08:21 AM
 
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Because it's just like London and Windsor... it has no suburbs. All the population/development's within the city limits.
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Old 05-04-2016, 11:30 PM
 
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Airdrie 40000
Chestermere 18000
Strathmore 15000
Langdon 5000
Okotoks 25000
High River 12000
Cochrane 15000

That's a total of 130000 ppl that should be in the metro. Many many ppl in these bedroom communities work in Calgary. I know as I live in Langdon. It's almost empty mon to fri business hours.
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Old 05-05-2016, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Hougary, Texberta
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Airdrie 40000
Chestermere 18000
Strathmore 15000
Langdon 5000
Okotoks 25000
High River 12000
Cochrane 15000

That's a total of 130000 ppl that should be in the metro. Many many ppl in these bedroom communities work in Calgary. I know as I live in Langdon. It's almost empty mon to fri business hours.
It is, but that's barely 10%. If you are talking Vancouver, Montreal, etc, the metro is usually double what the city proper is.
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Old 05-16-2016, 11:09 AM
 
Location: Windsor Ontario/Colchester Ontario
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Because it's just like London and Windsor... it has no suburbs. All the population/development's within the city limits.
Windsor actually has fairly substantial suburbs for its size, like Lasalle (26,000), Tecumseh (23,000), lakeshore (35,000), and Amherstburg (21,000). Why would you make a post like that when you have no idea what you are talking about?
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Old 05-17-2016, 12:02 AM
 
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I don't know the history of Calgary, but a few cities have been amalgamated in the hopes of achieving more effective government. Ottawa and Halifax come to mind - city and myriad suburbs condensed into one government. I get the sense in Calgary its partly a case of the smaller cities being added onto Calgary as Rejeanesque mentions, then the boundaries of Calgary expanding so that new growth will also largely be part of Calgary.

Otherwise its not uncommon for metros to be much larger than centre cities. Here in the northwest, Vancouver, Seattle and Portland each have about 600,000 people compared to metros of 2.1-3.5 million.

One other thing that might influence this is that the west is generally much more sparsely populated than the east - fewer historic towns, and larger farms/ranches made for less population in the countryside.
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Old 05-17-2016, 11:51 AM
 
Location: Hougary, Texberta
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Calgary is pretty much organic growth. The annexation of tiny towns was done back in the 60's/70's with Midnapore and Bowness, and at the time they had minimal population.


Future expansion/annexation will include some bedroom communities, or likely just be rolled into the metro more like Houston than Vancouver.
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Old 05-22-2016, 12:36 PM
 
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Calgary is pretty much organic growth. The annexation of tiny towns was done back in the 60's/70's with Midnapore and Bowness, and at the time they had minimal population.


Future expansion/annexation will include some bedroom communities, or likely just be rolled into the metro more like Houston than Vancouver.
Mayor Nenshi is in favour of building up rather than out, so inner city parkland is sold or leased to development companies cheap for residential development. For example, the endowment lands of the university have been leased (100 year) to a company that is building housing and shops for 50,000 people with 8 storey high-rises, 3 storey townhouses, and lots of high density. Nenshi is particularly interested in seeing higher density housing around the University.

He has made more than 40 attempts to have his agenda of secondary suites approved in R1 neighbourhoods, and has been defeated more than 40 times. He is not giving up. He is wasting taxpayer money by repeatedly trying to push his agenda on R1 neighbourhoods even though the owners of those properties in R1 neighbourhoods do not want it.

Additionally, Nenshi wants control of agricultural water rights, arguing that the city has more rights than agriculture, so the Mayor of Calgary should control rural farmland water. Nenshi wants to annex land East of Calgary to increase urban sprawl, but residents of agricultural land East of Calgary want to maintain their farms.
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