Social distancing and economic lockdown measures implemented in Global North countries have been mimicked in the Global South to contain the spread of COVID-19. However, the …
In the last few decades the magnitude and impacts of planetary urban transformations have become increasingly evident to scientists and policymakers. The ability to understand these …
Bogotá and the 17 neighboring municipalities make up one of the biggest metropolitan areas in Latin America. However, despite strong functional interactions within the area, there …
The demographic, ecological and socioeconomic changes associated with urbanisation are linked to changes in disease incidence, health service provision and mortality. These effects …
We develop a new dartboard methodology to delineate urban areas using detailed information about building location, which we implement using a map of all buildings in …
This paper uses nighttime luminosity to estimate a globally comparable measure of the size of metropolitan areas around the world for the years 2000 and 2010. We apply recently …
A variety of approaches to delineating metropolitan areas have been developed. Systematic comparisons of these approaches in terms of the metro area landscape that they generate …
Y Ru, B Blankespoor, U Wood-Sichra… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Economic statistics are frequently produced at an administrative level such as the sub- national division. However, these measures may lack sufficient local variation in the …
GF Randolph, C Deuskar - Journal of Planning Education …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
How are urban population and its growth distributed across urban settlements of different sizes? In the Global South, this is a critical planning question, yet its answer is muddled by …