Difficult question - One way of expressing density is using FSR. So I was wondering what the density of Downtown Vancouver would be if we expressed it using FSR?
You can't measure the density of downtown via FSR. FSR is a measure that's useful in comparing sites. It can be useful in comparing large areas that are a part of a area rezoning but that's about it. The FSR of downtown itself if one could calculate it would be a disappointing low number.
If you added up the total amount of property that each building sits on, then calculated the amount of floorspace, would that not give you an average FSR for DT Vancouver? Obviously you wouldn't include streets, sidewalks, parks,etc.
If you were calculating the FSR of downtown though you would have to include all the area, parks, sidwalks, roads etc other wise you are asking for the average density of sites downtown which is a very different question and also practically impossible to answer. It would still be a low number, I'd venture a somewhere below 3.0
Interesting to see how similar the populations are of Downtown and Renfrew-Collingwood. Furthermore, it's very interesting to see how the West End has only the third highest population, and not the first as is frequently boasted by residents. Granted, population and population density are not the same by a long shot.
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It does seem that the West End still holds the title of being our most densely populated neighbourhood when you consider its size in comparison to Downtown and Renfrew-Collingwood. I wonder if cutting Downtown up into the smaller constituent neighbourhoods of Yaletown, Gastown, Coal Harbour, etc. would change that.
Collingwood had the highest density of any neighbourhood including the west end and downtown south. Pricetags touched on this not to long ago. I am suprised to see how well Renfrew-Collingwood is doing as a whole though.
Collingwood had the highest density of any neighbourhood including the west end and downtown south. Pricetags touched on this not to long ago. I am suprised to see how well Renfrew-Collingwood is doing as a whole though.
The West End is by far still the most dense neighbourhood in the city. I got Collingwood at 5940.58 per sq km. Am I missing something?
You might be using the data for Renfrew-Collingwood and not just Collingwood on it's own.
Should be interesting with 3 additional towers going into the Collingwood section we could see them crack the 40K/sqkm before the next decade.
I was. I looked more into and I can't find any data supporting that Collingwood is approaching such density levels. Any links? Is it just the few blocks that have towers?
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