Urban Sprawl

• Suburbs fuel rise in housing completions, construction, CMHC says

  CMHC said that the number of homes in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver ready for tenants owners has begun soaring the farther one is from those city's centres.

  Canada

  Feb 15
• Developers to ask Calgary council to add 11 new suburb neighbourhoods

  Calgary city administration is recommending against the approval of the neighbourhoods at a committee meeting Monday.

  Consumer

  Oct 14, 2020
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• More workers using cars to commute as urban sprawl grows in Montreal: study

  About 100,000 commuters from the municipalities bordering Greater Montreal commute to work in the city every day, a recent study found.

  Canada

  Jan 7, 2020
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• Push for Okanagan’s first cohousing development is on

  A living concept that started in Denmark in the 1960s is being pushed in the Okanagan.

  Mar 4, 2019
• Cities need to grow up, not out, if only to avoid trampling on forest and farmland: study

  When cities grow at the behest of developers rather than guided by policy, the result is development that eats into agricultural or forest lands, said a researcher.

  World

  Jan 31, 2019
• Population growth visualized: Century of sprawl in Edmonton

  Using open data, Darkhorse Analytics tracked new home builds every year since 1917. Then, it created an interactive map that reveals how — and where — Edmonton grows.

  Features

  Jul 12, 2018
• Planning agreement reached between Edmonton, Beaumont and Leduc County

  Acrimony between Edmonton and the Town of Beaumont has been set aside, and the result is a new agreement to sort out those controversial nine quarter-sections that both sides wanted to annex from Leduc County.

  Economy

  Feb 14, 2018
• Edmonton election 2017: How do the mayoral candidates plan to improve mature neighbourhoods and reduce urban sprawl?

  Some of Edmonton's mayoral candidates offered their views on how to improve mature neighbourhoods and prevent urban sprawl in a survey late last month. Here's what they said.

  Politics

  Oct 12, 2017
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• Does building up work for Peninsular Halifax?

  Some people not happy with the concept of just building 'up' as the sole solution to the creation of urban density.

  Canada

  Apr 19, 2016
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• New Edmonton neighbourhoods will cost $1.4 billion more than they will bring in

  A new City of Edmonton report says the long-term costs to build and maintain three new neighbourhoods will exceed the revenue they will bring in.

  Politics

  Mar 20, 2016