For the life of me, I cannot understand why Country Hills Blvd. and 60 Street NE are so wide. They're only actually 4 lanes, but they're 50m wide! Is this the City or the developer at fault?

I think we're in the middle of a housing affordability crisis that is mostly affecting younger and poorer people. Older, wealthier people who already own homes are the main demographic cohort standing in the way of solutions. I'm sure if we had a plebiscite, rezoning would lose. However, I also...

What? I for one am eager to learn more about what their great aunt's ass thinks about people who don't drive mercedes.

You really see the lag in apartments. What's going on there? IIRC there was more high rise development in this city during the oil crash of the late 2010s.

Only renderporn.

Google maps? Check. MLS? Check. DMAP? Check. SRC? Check. Anti-NIMBY youtube video? Check. Looks like a regulation urbanist desktop to me.

The US Census Bureau definitely defines metro areas at much larger scales than Statistics Canada. Case in point: metro Chicago is 28000 km2 (holding just over 9 million people). Metro Toronto, on the other hand, is only 6000 km2 and holds 6 million people. The "Greater Golden Horseshoe" is...

You could fill libraries with the amount of research that has been done on the root causes of homelessness, as well as the best policy responses to existing homelessness. I'd start with Homelesshub.ca, which is an excellent resource...

This is maddening. Do you have a link to the report by any chance?

Finally taking advantage of of the "ignore" button on this forum rather than falling for argument bait.

Oof. Only 19 cranes in the middle of a massive population surge. Very frustrating.

It seems like there's no chance 10th street will ever improve given its position within the larger road network. That's why it's nice that we're starting to see "main streets" develop on smaller, non-commuter roads like 19st in Hillhurst and 33/34 ave in Marda Loop where the need to push through...

Looks pretty car sewery to me. But it was nice of the City to give pedestrians a good 2 - maybe 2.5 - feet to squeeze between the utility polls and buildings. Kensington would be much, much more pleasant if 10th street wasn't a major car route in and out of downtown.

This reminds me of the kind of development that made Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood such an attractive place in the 1970s/80s. Small scale, mixed-use infills that take advantage of existing architecture rather than knocking it all down and starting from scratch. To some extent, Calgary's...

I can't remember if it was in the Hiller article or somewhere else, but I remember reading about how Victoria Park's transformation from a working class/immigrant neighbourhood into a decaying, high-crime zone was essentially engineered by the powers that be (the City, Stampede, absentee...

Pleasantly surprised to see something proposed for 13th Ave and Centre Street. This is probably the single location in Calgary that most feels like an American inner-city. Every corner is an empty lot surrounded by fencing. Some of the fences even have barbed wire. It's an incredibly hostile...

Describing this as "mediocrity" is being extremely generous. The only way this vinyl shed could be considered "mediocre" is if it was located in some kind of mining outpost up north.

Gotta say, the Smith government is turning out to be just as extreme as everyone warned (but which Smith was able to disguise during the election campaign). Going after trans kids, essentially banning renewable energy, taxing EVs, cutting funding to health care and education, transferring funds...

Hello fellow stroller-pushing Marda Looper who moved here from Toronto! I moved to Marda Loop in 2015 and casually referred to it as "the suburbs", which offended a lot of locals (but, in 2015, it basically was the suburbs). It's amazing how much it has changed in the past decade. We used to be...