Cities are like living entities: They grow, shrink, expand and decline over time. And surprisingly, until now, there wasn’t a good way to watch this happen holistically.
A new study from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies aims to take the first steps toward fixing that problem, with the release of a data set that digitizes 6,000 years of historical population data worldwide.
“I think to understand cities today it’s helpful to see cities from the past to look at how cities have changed,” says Meredith Reba, the lead author and a research associate at Yale F&ES.
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