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Comparing Urbanization

June 24, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Berkeley’s  Global Metropolitan Observatory is a site focusing on large trasformation of cities. Using aerial imagery mainly coming from the Landsat 7 satellite, large B/W density maps at the same graphic scale are produced.

A  50×50 km grid is then superimposed onto each map, for the sake of an easier comparization.


Beijing in 1990 (571.00 sq km; population: 7,362,000):

Beijing in 2005 (1423.28 sq km; population: 10,718,000):

Beijing in 2010 (6421.51 sq km; population: 11,741,000):

Guangzhou & Foshan in 2000:

Istanbul in 2000 (434.50 sq km; population: 8,744,000):

Istanbul in 2005 (940.99 sq km; population: 9,709,000):

Mexico City in 2005 (1060.45 sq km; population: 18,735,000):

Mexico City in 2010 (1180.75 sq km; population: 19,460,000):

Shanghai in 2005 (510.25 sq km; population 1999: 8,214,384; population 2004: 14,503,000):

Shanghai in 2010 (510.25 sq km; 2010 – 15,786,000. Shanghai Statistical Bureau estimates an additional 8,977,000 in “floating population. According to UN estimates, Shanghai will reach 23.2 Million inhabitants by 2015 and rank 4th among the world’s largest cities):

Paris in 2005 (830.00 sq km; 1999 – population 1999: 9,319,367 greater metropolitan area; population 2004: 9,692,000 (includes 162 communes in 4 Departments adjacent to Paris):

Rome in 2000 (501.00 sq km; population: 2,791,000):

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Comments

  1. John says

    November 18, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    Hello Fosco,

    Your works are brilliant.
    Is it possible to purchase some of your drawings for education purposes?

    John

  2. fosco lucarelli says

    November 19, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    Thank you John, but if you refer to these maps, they aren’t my own works: you should contact Berkeley’s Global Metropolitan Observatory (follow the link in the post) and ask them for purchasing. By the way, thanks also for following Socks!

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