Map Monday: Twin Cities Land Use 2014, using Global Urban Atlas Measures

From the Lincoln Institute on Land Policy, here’s a through Twin Cities’ land use map from a huge (!) document called the Atlas of Urban Expansion, which purports to compare cities around the world according to a few key land use measures. The Twin Cities falls into the “Land-rich developed countries” category, but the cool thing about the Atlas is that it compares 200 cities around the world using the same standards.

Here’s the Twin Cities map:

Here too is a chart showing the metrics they used, changing through time:

This is only “Volume 1: Areas and Densities”, so expect more. You can download the entire “Atlas” here.

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Bill Lindeke has writing blogging about sidewalks and cities since 2005, ever since he read Jane Jacobs. He is a lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Minnesota Geography Department, the Cityscape columnist at Minnpost, and has written multiple books on local urban history. He was born in Minneapolis, but has spent most of his time in St Paul. Check out Twitter @BillLindeke or on Facebook.