Historical Urban Population: 3700 BC - AD 2000
Historical Urban Population, 3700 BC - AD 2000, originally developed by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is the first spatially explicit global data set containing location and size of urban populations over the last 6,000 years. The data set was created by digitizing, transcribing, and geocoding historical, archaeological, and census-based urban population data. Each data point consists of a city name, latitude, longitude, year, population, and a reliability ranking to assess the geographic uncertainty of each data point. Despite spatial and temporal gaps, no other geocoded data set at this resolution exists. It can therefore be used to investigate long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns, evaluate the current era of urbanization, and build a richer record of urban population through history.
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| Spatial Extent: | Bounding Rectangle: N: 85.0 S: -60.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0 |
Data Format(s): | Distribution: Excel Workbook |
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| Data Center(s): | SEDAC | Instrument(s): | Computer |
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- Title: Historical Urban Population: 3700 BC - AD 2000
- Creator: Reba, M. L., F. Reitsma, and K. C. Seto
- Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
- Release Date: 2018-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4ZG6QBX
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000/docs, Documentation Page
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To provide spatially explicit, historic, city-level population data from 3700 BC to AD 2000 for improved understanding of contemporary and historical urbanization trends. -
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10.7927/H4ZG6QBX
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Users are free to use, copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work for commercial and non-commercial purposes, without restriction, as long as clear attribution of the source is provided.
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Title: Spatializing 6,000 Years of Global Urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Author(s): Reba, M. L., F. Reitsma, and K. C. Seto
Series: Scientific Data
Volume: 3
Pages: 160034
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.34.
Online Resource: https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.34
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| HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | CARTESIAN |
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- GEOGRAPHIC REGION
- GLOBAL
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Format: Excel Workbook
Format Type: Native
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