Environment & Urbanization

World leading environmental and urban studies journal

The Atlas of Urban Expansion

Author: 
Shlomo
Angel

Other authors: 
Jason Parent, Daniel L Civco and Alejandro M Blei,

Published by: 
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

This website contains the data and maps used in the analyses summarized in the previous Book Note – for instance, the pairs of land cover maps derived from satellite images of 120 cities and metropolitan areas circa 1990 and 2000, zipped kml files containing the urban land cover for 3,646 large cities in the year 2000 (these can only be viewed on Google Earth) and an Excel spreadsheet containing data for 3,646 large cities in the year 2000.

available online at http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/atlas-urban-expansion/

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