What Can 6,000 Years of Data Tell Us About Cities?

在一个 智能城市 和 城市科学, data has rapidly become 王. 通常, the focus is on real-time measurement 和 forward-loo王 studies, but history also has a lot to teach us, 太. 然而, a great deal of historical data on global urban development has been hidden in two dense 和 (ironically) un-digitized studies. 事实上, 直到最近, the UN had the only geolocated data set of city growth 和 it only went back to 1950. Now, Meredith Reba, an urbanization researcher at Yale, has 发表了一项研究 策划 6,000 years of global, city level population data. The first easily digestible research of its kind, the study not only the size of past cities, 但如何, 当, 以及它们出现的地方. This data, which makes for an 令人印象深刻的可视化 of humanity’s recent urbanization, 和 opens the door to a wide-range of new research. 也许最重要的是, it adds valuable context to the professionalization of city ma王: The first urban planning program 始于1909年, while architecture education at the university level was 创立于1865年. In contrast, urbanization started in 3700 BC. Stay humble, a lot happened before we started.

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