[MartinMtl]

Here are population maps of the largest metropolitan aeras in the country:

Toronto

Montreal

Vancouver

Calgary

Edmonton

Ottawa

 

[Bogtrotter]

It looks like only Toronto and Hongcouver have an area of pop density of 12,000 or more per sq km.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

Montreal has more purple than us but our red goes all the way out to cornfields, which must count for something.

 

[Hypnotoad]

So, squintinig and looking closely at the only dark purple plot in Toronto... what would you say are the boundaries for that high density area? It looks like Yonge to the West, Queen to the South, Parliament (? ) to the east and Bloor to the north. Is that about right?

 

[CDL.TO]

Bigger maps: http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/popdwell/maps/animations/CMAs/Toronto.swf

For another city from the ones above, just change the "Toronto" to the city you want. Note how Toronto downtown density shrunk in some ways through 1971-1991.

 

[Chuck]

Don't let the scale fool you when comparing different cities. I suspect that the GTA is on a smaller scale than some of the other cities, which is why our purple areas seem smaller by comparison.

 

[MisterF]

Those maps aren't to scale so you can't tell the relative sizes of the cities or their cores.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

The scale may be different but the proportion of Montreal that's purple is greater than the proportion of Toronto that's purple...surrounding downtown Toronto is single family houses, but Montreal has those triplex things.

 

[CDL.TO]

Looking at the Toronto map I can't help but notice the immense potential of the Milton GO line through Mississauga and Toronto.


The big higher-density blob in WE Calgary was quite unexpected.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

From Google Maps that area in Calgary looked like some quasi-New Urbanist arrangment (with backlane parking), but somehow still managed to get cul-de-sacs into the street pattern.

AoD

 

[doady]

Looking at the Toronto map I can't help but notice the immense potential of the Milton GO line through Mississauga and Toronto.

Or the potential of an extension of the Bloor subway to Square One, which according to the map, would go through much denser areas than an extension of Yonge to Richmond Hill.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

Both Sheppard extensions and a DRL would pass through all-red territory.

The big higher-density blob in WE Calgary was quite unexpected.

Do you mean Calgary's blob east of the airport? Red is only 3000 people per km², which almost any subdivision built after the 70s will hit as long as there isn't a bajillion parks (green or office) around.

 

[adma]

That's Calgary's #1 ethnoburban zone, which may explain things...

 

[scarberiankhatru]

It's because the houses are reasonably tight and there aren't ravines everywhere.

 

[wyliepoon]

What's that purple spot straddling the Scarborough-Markham border? Is that McCowan and Steeles/Alton Towers?

Must have something to do with all the Chinese boarding houses in my area.