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Originally Posted by theman23
Marseille only has 800,000 people, but if you were just walking around town and didn't have an appreciation of Toronto's sprawl you might think Marseille is the bigger city.
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It's hard to compare European and North American cities. Toronto is mostly highrise or detached house, with few medium-scale buildings. Marseille has tons of medium-scale buildings and they make the nicest urban districts. Montreal has a belt of in-between areas that are above Toronto but below Marseille. Vancouver's got almost no good medium density stuff (yes, I know about the 60's walk-ups of Fairview... they do not make for an interesting neighbourhood).
Canadian cities seem to be on a different trajectory from most of Europe though. There must be some European boom towns but most of them haven't changed much over the past 10 years. Canadian cities were pretty dreary places overall in the 90's and early 2000's but the gap has narrowed. The fast pace of development adds some interest, although construction can be annoying.
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