Don’t Albertan cities simply have more space to sprawl onto? Vancouver is bounded by the river, by mountains, by the other river, by the US border, by the ocean…

It’s a bit of a struggle for Vancouver to sprawl.

Vancouver geography is not that constrained. Land use is just very bad. The classic Vancouver skyline is a surprisingly small area. It’s surrounded by SFH suburbs. The Lower Mainland has tons of strip malls and parking lots due to car culture. It’s not a lack of land, it’s a bad use of land.

  • BC Lower mainland: 36,000 km^2. Population 3 million.
  • Netherlands: 41,500 km^2. Population 17 million.
  • Belgium: 30,500 km^2. Population 11.7 million.
  • Switzerland: 41,250 km^2. Population 8.7 million.

These countries are not Hong Kong. They have nature, a mix of big cities and small towns, and lots of low density areas. Switzerland is a famously mountainous region with lots of untouched nature and rural areas.

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