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Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Growth in Latin American Cities : An Analysis Using Nighttime Lights Imagery / Duque, Juan C.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Duque, Juan C.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities.
- City to city alliances.
- Cluster analysis.
- Coastal and marine resources.
- Communities and human settlements.
- Energy and natural resources.
- Labor markets.
- National urban development policies and strategies.
- Regional urban development.
- Remote sensing.
- Transport.
- Urban development.
- Urban economic development.
- Urban economics.
- Urban form.
- Local Subjects:
- Cities.
- City to city alliances.
- Cluster analysis.
- Coastal and marine resources.
- Communities and human settlements.
- Energy and natural resources.
- Labor markets.
- National urban development policies and strategies.
- Regional urban development.
- Remote sensing.
- Transport.
- Urban development.
- Urban economic development.
- Urban economics.
- Urban form.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (47 pages)
- Other Title:
- Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Growth in Latin American Cities
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The impact of urban form on economic performance and quality of life has been extensively recognized. The studies on urban form have focused in developed countries; only a few cities in developing countries have been studied. This paper utilizes nighttime lights imagery and information on street networks, automatically retrieved from OpenStreetMap, to calculate a series of spatial metrics that capture different aspects of the urban form of 919 Latin American and Caribbean cities. The paper classifies these cities into clusters according to these spatial metrics. It also studies the relationship between the urban form metrics and some factors that can correlate with urban form (topography, size, colony, and economic performance) and performs a spatio-temporal analysis of urban growth from 1996 to 2010. Among the results, the paper highlights the identification of five typologies of cities, the tendency of a group of cities to grow at a steeper slope, some worrying cases of urban growth over protected areas, and a trend toward increasing sprawl in some Latin American and Caribbean cities.
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