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Originally Posted by balletomane
Toronto amalgamation seemed much better thought out than Winnipeg's. I think had Winnipeg amalgamated in the 2000's than the 1970's, it also would've been better thought out. I'm not sure when the "anti-suburb/sprawl movement" started, but suburban development and increasingly sprawling cities were commonplace in the 1970's.
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The anti-sprawl element in society only really took hold in the late-1990s and early 2000s. There might have been fringes of it prior to that (see: freeway revolts of the 1970s), but generally, land use planning by government did not begin to change much around major cities until the 2000s.
Winnipeg had too many uncoordinated municipalities in the 1960s. Toronto had 5 "cities" for about 2 million people. Winnipeg had 12 (?) for about 1/2 a million. Getting anything planned or done must have been a giant hassle.