junctionist
Senior Member
Cities like Edmonton and Saskatoon can use their growth to become more beautiful and livable and fight sprawl. Rather than dismissing these cities, we the citizens of the national metropolis should promote the virtues of urbane development, infrastructure, public spaces, and culture in cities across the country. They need to build more transit and work to eliminate their patchwork of surface parking lots downtown with revitalizing high-density mixed use development. Architects like KPMB, aA, HP, BSN, and Teeple will bring their experience to do it well. This approach will only strengthen the influence of the national metropolis.