Population figures added to Copernicus Urban Atlas data
A recent JRC Technical Report describes a method to downscale residential population data to the level of Copernicus Urban Atlas polygons. Urban Atlas 2012 is a powerful geographical dataset that describes land use/land cover at high spatial resolution for nearly 700...Read articleState of European Cities Report 2016 published
In partnership with UN Habitat, the U.N. programme working towards a better urban future, the European Commission released the State of European Cities Report 2016. It supports the Urban Agenda by assessing the performance of European cities with regards to its...Read articleNew Global Human Settlement Layer website and report
The Global Human Settlement Layer project of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has a new website: http://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ It features the “Atlas of the Human Planet”, presenting the key findings of the analysis of the Global Human...Read articleUrban Data Platform online
The new Urban Data Platform, developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in close co-operation with DG Regional and Urban Policy, is now online: http://urban.jrc.ec.europa.eu This tool allows the interactive discovery – via maps and...Read article
Mapping high-resolution population and employment data in urban areas: some tests taking into account height and functions of buildings
by Hugo Poelman, May 2016 This note discusses a few test cases aiming at enhancing disaggregation processes of population and employment data in urban areas. The main focus is on the opportunities to use information about the height, the location and the function of...Read articleAssessing access to green areas in Europe’s cities
A new working paper published by Directorate-General Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission presents an analysis of the spatial distribution of both population and green areas throughout the cities’ territory, producing indicators on the proximity...Read article
GIS tools reveal that Lidingö is the greenest urban area in Sweden
Statistics Sweden has studied the green structure in 37 larger urban areas in Sweden, to cover the largest urban areas in each county.
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