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> More people have been moving into cities Not so much in Canada. Small towns (1,000 to 29,999 people) are the fastest growing community type. Large cities (10
by randomdata 8y ago
> More people have been moving into cities
Not so much in Canada. Small towns (1,000 to 29,999 people) are the fastest growing community type. Large cities (100,000+ people) have lost share of the population. The definition of urban is "a population of at least 1,000 and a density of 400 or more people per square kilometre", so you might hear that urbanization continues (which is true, the rural population shrunk by about the same rate as cities), but that doesn't mean the people are moving into cities.
- xvedejas 8y agoCanada is very different from the US in this regard, so it's important to consider both distinctly. Canada never had the same mass-exodus of the middle class from their cities, so the economic demographics are all very different from those of American cities. Maybe these two sets of cities are growing to become more like each other?
- herge 8y agoReally? There are no suburbs in Canada? There were sure a lot of poor neighborhoods in Montréal near the downtown core in the 60's and a lot of residential development on the South Shore and the West Island.
- xvedejas 8y agoThere absolutely are suburbs. But relative to the US, Canada’s major cities have maintained bigger inner-urban middle classes.