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Canada's per-capita consumption of resources is one of the highest in the world, a statistic that is partly a by-product of this sprawl. Higher even than the US.
Once again kkgg7 you are talking nonsense.
I lived in Miami and it does much much worse than Toronto.
In Toronto you can live downtown and almost never ever need to board a car to accomplish anything. Employment, retail, groceries, parks, and even the Toronto islands should you want to go for a swim are all accessible very easily through public transit and/or walking. The area where you can live and walk everywhere is huge, whereas in the likes of LA and Miami it's almost non-existent.
Densities:
Toronto (including suburbs): 4,149/km2
Toronto (inner city): 7,583.9/km2 (NOTE: Expanding for 97.15 km2)
Greater Toronto Area: 850/km2
Los Angeles: 3,124.45/km2
Greater Los Angeles: 203.3/km2
Tokyo (proper): 6,000/km2
Tokyo (metro): 2,629/km2
Miami (proper): 4,687.1/km2
Miami (metro): 315/km²
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I think it's pretty obvious Toronto is less sprawly than LA. So is Miami, which is in turn more sprawly than Toronto.
Toronto is pretty decent sized not-so-sprawly city surrounded by sprawly municipalities. I believe that LA does have non sprawly areas (as does Miami), but those areas are usually not self-contained cities fully independent cities, whereas Toronto's inner city is.
According to my calculations (assuming I didn't leave out or double count any census tracts), the following roughly 4.5 square miles of downtown Toronto increased from 132,434 in 2006 to 175,064 in 2011. That is a whopping 32.2% increase over 5 years.
Once again kkgg7 you are talking nonsense.
I lived in Miami and it does much much worse than Toronto.
In Toronto you can live downtown and almost never ever need to board a car to accomplish anything. Employment, retail, groceries, parks, and even the Toronto islands should you want to go for a swim are all accessible very easily through public transit and/or walking. The area where you can live and walk everywhere is huge, whereas in the likes of LA and Miami it's almost non-existent.
Urban areas are a better measurement than Metropolitan areas which include tons of rural land, and city boundaries are arbitrary
Urban area densities:
Toronto: 2734.7/km2
Toronto+Hamilton+Oshawa: 2665.9/km2
Los Angeles: 2702.4/km2
Los Angeles+Riverside: 2424.7/km2
Miami: 1715.2/km2
In terms of overall density, Toronto is a bit denser than LA, but not by much, they're pretty similar.
@kkgg7: but I don't think those statistics look at just the densest 5%/10% surrounding downtown, they probably also include any high density areas in Long Beach, Koreatown or North Hollywood.
Toronto's density is actually not that spiky like NYC or SF though, it's pretty similar to LA. Still despite having a bit more high density (in percentage terms), Toronto's low density suburbs don't lower the overall urban area density below that of LA. NY and SF's urban areas have their overall density reduced to below that of LA due to their low density suburbs but not Toronto.
So now matter how you look at it, Toronto is denser, if only by a little.
Also, the population of Toronto's downtown is quite high. Around 20% of Old Toronto:
LA fine but miami? Miami is small, it is easy to get around.