Correction to: npj Urban Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00020-2, published online 27 May 2021

The original version of this Article used wrong raw data for the population number for Quebec when producing the data points and the trend lines (in red) in both Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. Incorrect population of 8,485,000 in the Province of Quebec was used instead of the correct population of 800,296 in the Quebec metropolitan area.

The correct version of Fig. 3 is

And the correct version of Fig. 4 is

This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.