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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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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61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
Palisades,
New York
10964
61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
Palisades,
New York
10964
61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
Palisades,
NY
10964
Format: Excel Workbook
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