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Session Overview

Session

03-02: New ways of measuring urban extent

Time:

Tuesday, 26/Mar/2019:

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session Chair: Shlomo Angel, New York University, United States of America

Location: MC 13-121

Presentations

ID: 162 / 03-02: 1
Individual Papers
Topics: Economic research and impact evaluation
Keywords: metro areas, urban definitions, agglomeration economies, Indonesia

Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large developing country

Maarten Bosker², Jane Park¹, Mark Roberts¹

¹World Bank, United States of America; ²Erasmus University Rotterdam

ID: 367 / 03-02: 2
Individual Papers
Topics: Urban expansion, land use, land value capture, and housing
Keywords: densification, expansion, urban, population

Densification vs. expansion: recent findings for a global sample of cities

Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall

New York University, United States of America

ID: 438 / 03-02: 3
Individual Papers
Topics: Urban expansion, land use, land value capture, and housing
Keywords: Global Urbanization, Remote Sensing, Artificial Intelligence, Settlemnt Growth

Accurately monitoring urbanization at global scale – the world settlement footprint

Mattia Marconcini¹, Noel Gorelick², Annekatrin Metz-Marconcini¹, Thomas Esch¹

¹German Aerospace Center - DLR, Germany; ²Google Inc., USA

ID: 920 / 03-02: 4
Individual Papers
Topics: Use of remote sensing and land use policy
Keywords: Urban expansion, remote sensing, cities, equity, sustainability

Characterizing and managing urban expansion for higher equity, productivity, and environmental quality in the global south

Anjali Mahendra¹, Karen Seto²

¹World Resources Institute, WRI, United States of America; ²Yale University, , United States of America