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Originally Posted by d_jeffrey
Again, if you took only the Urban parts of Toronto or Montréal, you would have over 10 000/km2...
This is the CMA of Montréal:
I don't agree with your Greenbelt comment, since it is mostly responsible for Ottawa's sprawl. If Vancouver stretched out the other side of the mountain, these numbers would have been included in the CMA.
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I'm just saying that since teh CMA boundaries are not accurate, then we should not rely on CMA density data either.
Superimpose Montreal's CMA against the urban development, you'd probably see that Montreal's CMA is around 50-60% urban.
The city of Ottawa (not CMA, just the city) only has 20% urban, the CMA probably closer to 10%.
How can anybody really believe that Edmonton is twice the size of Montreal?
As for the Greenbelt, these are lands that the city has no control over, therefore it should not be included in density calculations (add Central Exp Farm to that list as well). Ottawa is like Montreal, it is an island, except that Ottawa is mainly surrounded by Federal land and not rivers. If the city had it's way, do you think the Greenbelt would have existed?