NYU Stern Urbanization Project

Shlomo Angel, the Director of the Urban Expansion Program and a Professor of City Planning at the Marron Institute, was cited in a Citiscope article by Gregory Scruggs.

The article discusses the recently released Atlas of Urban Expansion - 2016 Edition. Scruggs "asked Angel identify several cities from the Atlas that demonstrate challenges or opportunities for cities of the future. He picked three pairs of cities that offer intriguing comparisons when it comes to expansion, density and a city’s overall well being."

Multimedia project shows the ever-changing shape of cities | Citiscope The new Atlas of Urban Expansion draws on old and new data to paint a picture of what massive urban growth really means.

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"To date, there has been little scientific understanding of broad global patterns related to how city borders, systems, and land-use patterns are changing. But the newly revised, second edition of the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, first published in 2012, aims to fill this crucial gap in knowledge.

Produced through a partnership among UN-Habitat, the New York University Urban Expansion Program, and the Lincoln Institute, the new Atlas performs very precise analysis of satellite imagery, coupled with population figures and other data, to study the changing nature of cities observed from 1990 to the present.

The full report and data are set to be unveiled this October at the global cities summit in Quito, Ecuador, as part of the implementation of the United Nations" .

Boundary Issues Cities around the world seem to be stretching out physically and consuming land at a rate that exceeds population growth. As populations double, land use triples.