Urban form datasets of 194 cities delineated based on the contiguous urban fabric for 1990 and 2015.

ABSTRACT: The present research datasets were processed for the article "The global homogenization of urban form. An assessment of 194 cities across time" [1]. They consist of land cover spatial layers, longitude and latitude point data and tabulated data with computed landscape metrics and the characterization of urban form of 194 cities for 1990 and 2015. Contiguous urban fabric at 30 m spatial resolution was derived from the Atlas of Urban Expansion database for 1990 and 2015 [2]. Landscape metrics were computed as quantitative measures of composition and spatial arrangement of each city and dimensions of the database were reduced employing correlation and principal components analysis. Hierarchical clustering was employed to group cities according to the similarity of their urban form and analysi

SUBMITTER: Lemoine-Rodriguez R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7569292 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature