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Room to Grow

3 Jan 2018

To ensure comparability between the cities Preliminary comparisons between population analyzed, the study includes only fully urban- density in the cities included in this essay and ized municipalities or municipalities with rural Mercer’s 2017 Quality of Living Ranking indicate land area and population removed from the that cities of comparable density vary signifi- density equation. [...] In Amsterdam, urban land area and population data exclude the rural districts (wijken) of Lutkemeer/Ookmeer and Waterland, both of which consist almost entirely of farmland. [...] When last included in the Canadian census in 2001, this 7. In Toronto and Chicago, the finance and insurance portion of Toronto was over 26 percent denser services sectors (from the North American Industry than the City of Vancouver was in 2016 (Statis- Classification System) represent 8 and 6 percent of tics Canada, 2001; 2016). [...] A first step in comparing density with living The data in table 1 and the comparison of qual- standards is to select a measure of urban qual- itatively similar cities reveal that Canadian cit- ity of life. [...] In Calgary and Houston, the share of workers in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction ies across 170 countries.
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Vancouver, BC, CA

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