I've posted on here in favour of land value taxes before, but I crunched the numbers last fall, and changed my mind. (Unfortunately, a poorly timed Excel crash lost all of my data.) At the risk of derailing this into a discussion about urban development: A property is two things; a building and...

Last two seasons are a good indicator of the teams potential, which is probably 3 home playoff games at best. Keep Weegar and Backlund, you can't trade Huberdeau and Kadri, and the rest of the roster should be whoever comes up from the Wranglers. Few teams have as good a chance to do a full...

I disagree. Bad drivers are a symptom of the problem, but trying to solve it at that level is doomed to failure. "All we need to do to fix this is for every single one of a million different people to each individually increase their skill and effort just because it's the right thing to do" is a...

As a side note, I recall the traditional 50/50 capital funding ratio between roads and transit included the Crowchild Trail freeway interchanges in the "transit" side of the funding pie since they were being done in conjunction with the LRT extension.

I don't think the specific buzzword TOD existed until the mid 1990s (a 3 second search seems to credit Calthorpe in 1993). But the key principles existed. From 1995: And there's been a formal TOD policy for about 20 years now:

It's a lovely design; excited to see it! Sad to say goodbye to my crayon plan for a gondola between Westbrook and the U of C, but this site was a perfect spot for straight-line connections across the Bow and up to FMC.

It's remarkable that you can build apartments on a parcel that literally borders one with a train station and still be able to have the front door be a 750m walk from the station platform. The KenTen (10th St/Memorial Dr, formerly home to Julio's Barrio) is closer... to the Kerby LRT station...

It's not a bad article about the public realm, but my god what terrible framing. But let me take on some of the hypothetical questions about the office conversions. And just for fun, let me also answer these same questions for the thousands of people who are moving into Redstone, a reasonably...

I was having a look at MAX station walkable catchment areas and estimating the 2021 population within 400m and 800m of each stop; here's the stops on the Yellow Line: And here's selected stops on all of the lines, with LRT stations outlined and the line-level average on the right: The...

And then the final statistics: Here's the shares by the four measures (in order: DU raw density, DU buffered density, population raw density, population buffered density) And the final statistic of the share of population in high density conditions as well as the classic population-weighted...

And here's some cities to compare with us (all the same scale): Winnipeg Edmonton Ottawa Vancouver Montreal Toronto

I've been playing around with this for a little bit. A couple of methodological notes, first. The first thing is -- as I posted above -- in some ways dwelling unit (DU) count is a better proxy for built form than population. (Particularly since the built form lasts longer than the population; a...

It's weird that they put together a piece like this for the second location of something; there's been an H-Mart on Macleod Tr by 17th for three years; in one of those traffic-harried retail bays that had sat empty for most of a decade. It's not bad; I recommend the Ritz cracker sandwich with...

Couldn't help notice the difference:

Density is a subtle thing, and population density is not a pure measure. Imagine I had a friend who wanted to move to Calgary but wanted to live in a new home in a low density location. I could tell them that I'd found them a place in a dissemination area with a density of 827 people per sq km...

Year after year after year of mediocre product, and not only are the suckers fans lining up to fill the seats, they're paying billions to build you a new facility; I wish it was only a fantasy!

I think these are the differences that are/would be visible in both images -- all additions except for Stadium Shopping Centre (which is addition by subtraction): There are other additions on the U of C campus, the ACH, etc. that wouldn't have been there in the initial picture.

Was going through my mom's old photos a few days ago and found this beauty of the McMahon area from a hot air balloon from 1987.

Thanks for the link. What a stupid piece of engagement. It's a systemically important connection, connecting the Elbow and Bow pathways.I regularly ride through there, and the open pathway on the west bank of the Elbow is too narrow and is badly deteriorating. This link is even more important...

Why have a stuffy old Main Street like this: When for only hundreds of millions of dollars you can have a new, vital, climate-emergency-friendly Main Street like this: