Two centuries of settlement and urban development in the United States

New spatiotemporal settlement data enable unprecedented examination of urban and regional change in the United States since 1810. Over the past 200 years, the population of the United States grew more than 40-fold. The resulting development of the built environment has had a profound impact on the r...

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Vydané v:Science advances Ročník 6; číslo 23; s. eaba2937
Hlavní autori: Leyk, Stefan, Uhl, Johannes H., Connor, Dylan S., Braswell, Anna E., Mietkiewicz, Nathan, Balch, Jennifer K., Gutmann, Myron
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 01.06.2020
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ISSN:2375-2548, 2375-2548
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Shrnutí:New spatiotemporal settlement data enable unprecedented examination of urban and regional change in the United States since 1810. Over the past 200 years, the population of the United States grew more than 40-fold. The resulting development of the built environment has had a profound impact on the regional economic, demographic, and environmental structure of North America. Unfortunately, constraints on data availability limit opportunities to study long-term development patterns and how population growth relates to land-use change. Using hundreds of millions of property records, we undertake the finest-resolution analysis to date, in space and time, of urbanization patterns from 1810 to 2015. Temporally consistent metrics reveal distinct long-term urban development patterns characterizing processes such as settlement expansion and densification at fine granularity. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these settlement measures are robust proxies for population throughout the record and thus potential surrogates for estimating population changes at fine scales. These new insights and data vastly expand opportunities to study land use, population change, and urbanization over the past two centuries.
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DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aba2937