Outward and upward construction: A 3D analysis of the global building stock

T Esch, K Deininger, R Jedwab, D Palacios-Lopez - World Development, 2025 - Elsevier
The develo** world has built structures on an unprecedented scale to accommodate
population growth and urbanization. The horizontal and vertical structuring of the building …

[HTML][HTML] Phenoty** urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning

AB Metzler, R Nathvani, V Sharmanska, W Bai… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cities in the develo** world are expanding rapidly, and undergoing changes to their
roads, buildings, vegetation, and other land use characteristics. Timely data are needed to …

Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies

L Chen, R Hasan, Y Jiang, A Parkhomenko - Journal of Development …, 2024 - Elsevier
We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies. Bengaluru,
one of India's largest cities, inaugurated a metro system in 2011 but has extremely low …

Comparing city size distributions: Gridded population versus nighttime lights

M Puente‐Ajovín, M Sanso‐Navarro… - Journal of Regional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper compares the size distributions of cities when they are measured using gridded
population and nighttime lights (NTLs) data. To do so, we exploit recent and accurate …

[CITÁCIA][C] Phenoty** urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning

C Agyei-Asabere, B Metzler, R Nathvani - 2023 - Elsevier BV