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Ontario’s mid-sized cities

Suburban growth and downtown decline

by GORDON D, FIOR K
Ontario’s mid-sized cities
Published in April 2018 - Page 23

Canada is a suburban nation. Our research shows that two-thirds of the country’s total population lives in some form of suburb.1 Even in the largest metropolitan areas (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver), the portion of residents living in suburbs is over 80 percent. As a result, our larger cities must deal with the difficulties caused by low density, auto-defendant suburban growth.

Ontario’s 13 mid-sized metropolitan areas (with populations of 100,000 to 700,000) are also mainly composed of

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