Download or read book The Atlas of Urban Expansion written by Shlomo Angel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlas of Urban Expansion is part of a long-term research project that includes a series of related publications and online resources that are available for free downloading on the Lincoln Institute's website (https: //www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/atlas-urban-expansion/): three Lincoln Institute working papers; the Policy Focus Report "Making Room for a Planet of Cities"; and the online version of the "Atlas of Urban Expansion." The Atlas in book form introduces the project and presents two sets of full-color maps and a set of raw data tables. The first map section contains pairs of urban land cover maps from circa 1990 and 2000, representing a global sample of 120 cities. The second map section includes composite maps of a global representative sample of 30 cities, showing the historical expansion of their urbanized areas from 1800 to 2000. In both sections, the maps shown are paired with numerical and graphical data, making it possible to compare cities in terms of their metric values on key attributes of urban expansion. The third section contains four extensive tables of urban, national, and regional data for each of the 120 cities.