Canada despite its vast land mass is an urban nation, and city-regions are the locus of growth in Canada. A recent study by the Neptis Foundation examined how and where residential growth occurred in the Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, and Vancouver city-regions over 20 years (1991-2011). The findings suggest a new pattern of development has emerged in the millennium that can no longer be characterized as sprawl.
In this lecture, Marcy Burchfield, Executive Director of the Neptis Foundation, will juxtapose the growth patterns of four city-regions and will examine more closely the increasingly important role of regional planning and policy in Toronto and Vancouver city-regions.