Research Highlights
Monitoring Global Urban Expansion
— October 5, 2015

By Shlomo Angel, Alejandro Blei, Daniel Civco, Nicolas Galarza, Patrick Lamson-hall, Manuel Madrid, Jason Parent and Kevin Thom
By Shlomo Angel, Alejandro Blei, Daniel Civco, Nicolas Galarza, Patrick Lamson-hall, Manuel Madrid, Jason Parent and Kevin Thom
Phase I focuses on the mapping and measurement of global urban expansion in the sample of cities, 1990 - 2014, using Landsat satellite imagery; Phase II on the mapping and measurement of urban layouts in the sample, 2014-2015, using high-resolution satellite imagery; Phase III on a land and housing survey focused on the regulatory regimes and on land and housing affordability using city-based researchers in the global sample of cities; and Phase IV, to be completed later, on the mapping and estimation of urban extent in the entire universe of cities to 2045.
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