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Scenario Exploration System that promotes collaboration for sustainable urban planning.

People in search of better opportunities - such as jobs, services and education - have been moving from rural, to urban areas across the world, and this accelerating trend...

The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) project produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the form of built-up maps, population...

Tools provided by the European Commission Urban Data Platform plus Urban Data Platform Plus ( UDP plus) is a joint initiative of...

Since the advent of the openly accessible Sentinel satellite data as part of the Copernicus programme of the European Commission and ESA, massive amounts of satellite data have brought disruptive changes...

In future cities, we will need to optimise the distribution and use of public space to ensure that it is safe, accessible and inclusive for all. Provision of services could be...

The recently adopted Degree of Urbanisation allows a consistent definition and comparison of urbanisation at a global scale. Based on this new definition, the world is already much more urbanised than previously...

Source: Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index

Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects - The 2014 revision - highlights. Chapter: Trends in Urbanization

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