Recent content by Ayan

I am happy with your progress. You have gone from: “Van's downtown peninsula is pretty dense, but it's small, and the rest of the city is pretty sprawly, unlike Toronto, which has very dense nodes all over the city.†to: “But Toronto has a handicap over Vancouver....a much larger...

Then hopefully you won't make out-of-context statements like this one in the future. “Of course Calgary is going to (have) a higher (park) allocation than Toronto...it's land mass at 825 sqkm, is considerably larger than Toronto, while it's population is only 1.2 million. It does not have...

Is it your opinion that Toronto can't increase population density further to reach Vancouver's population density level?

There are plenty of examples of using of current city boundaries when comparing cities despite methodological challenges. http://www.conferenceboard.ca/press/newsrelease/14-09-18/six_canadian_cities_out_of_50_receive_top_marks_for_attracting_newcomers.aspx

Actually it’s YOU who is claiming that downtown Toronto is as green as downtown Vancouver (as evident in the beautiful linked pictures I posted before). The onus is on YOU to back up YOUR claim. Good luck :-)!

According to Statistics Canada, Vancouver has a significantly higher population density than Toronto. Among the top 25 densely populated Canadian cities, there are 6 from Vancouver CMA and only 2 from Toronto CMA...

Perhaps you can provide links to some pictures like I did :-)?

As I said, I would use current city boundaries. That's how comparisons are made. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-Tableau.cfm?LANG=Eng&T=307&SR=1&S=10&O=D Average real estate prices in Vancouver are higher than in Toronto. No one in their right mind...

Nice try but you are twisting my words. This is what I said: I can respond to your comment “South of 16th Avenue Vancouver feels pretty suburban in character†by saying that you should not look past the old City of Vancouver boundary :-). How did you interpret that as “the...

My point is that you can't arbitrarily choose land area when calculating density and claim it's an apple to apple comparison. It makes more sense to compare the current City of Vancouver to the current City of Toronto. As for whether Vancouver's density can teach you anything, perhaps you...

I looked at the table where “23,400 trees†is in the 2013 column and misinterpreted the data. I acknowledge that you are right – 23,400 trees were planted since 2010. However, as I noted before (post #198), there are MULTIPLE features that make downtown Vancouver considerably greener...

But why would you compare the current City of Vancouver to the old City of Toronto? Just because it favours your stance? I can respond to your comment “South of 16th Avenue Vancouver feels pretty suburban in character†by saying that you should not look past the old City of Vancouver...

Here's the link again: http://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/access-to-nature.aspx

The downtown neighbourhood (a clear outlier assuming you know how to read the map) you referred to does not seem any larger than “the small area represented by the Bay Street Corridor†:-). I already explained how multiple features make downtown Vancouver considerably greener than downtown...

Here’s an insightful article on the evolution of Toronto’s parks. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2007/08/03/what_happened_to_citys_park_plan.html