Imagine Cities

1491 days ago

According to a new study from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, there is a global trend towards increased urban sprawl. The findings indicate that increased urban growth worldwide has resulted in inflexible and disconnected street networks, which discourage transit usage and enforce motorized vehicle usage.

Street network patterns reveal worrying worldwide trend towards urban sprawl

phys.org

The new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the first global history of sprawl as measured by local connectivity of street networks. The research relied on publicly available data sourced from OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of maps, and satellite-derived data.