Urban geography
Cities, density, and the spatial logic of how people cluster and move.
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Industrial town, winter Economy · 41 min · Mar 17, 2026Alberta Calling
How a province that spent a decade recruiting the world is learning to blame it for showing up.
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Rural station platform Geography · 12 min · Mar 27, 2026The Classroom Arithmetic
Alberta's education system is building schools for yesterday's growth while a demographic pulse rolls toward secondary school.
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Hands over topographic map Geography · 12 min · Mar 17, 2026Hidden in Plain Sight
Calgary's 8,000 hectares of urban nature: what the livability rankings capture, what they miss, and what happens when a city keeps adding people.
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Transmission corridor at night Economy · 28 min · May 12, 2026Who Pays for Sprawl
Every new suburb generates development fees and property taxes. It also creates kilometres of pipe, road, and wire that someone will have to maintain forever. The math rarely adds up.
