Mapping 200 years of U.S. urbanization: Watch 35 U.S. cities grow from 1810 to 2015
Channel: HISDAC-US: Historical settlement data
Date: 2021-01-26

Urban growth of 35 U.S. cities from 1810 to 2015, arranged in a pseudo-geographic space (upper right = northeast, lower left = southwest). 

This animation is based on HISDAC-US historical settlement data (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/hisdacus) and is included in the movie available at https://doi.org/10.5446/48115.

HISDAC-US is based on the Zillow Transaction and Assessment Dataset (ZTRAX, https://www.zillow.com/research/ztrax/). Support by Zillow, Inc., is greatly appreciated.

References:
Uhl, Johannes H.; Leyk, Stefan, 2020, "Historical built-up areas (BUA) - gridded surfaces for the U.S. from 1810 to 2015", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/J6CYUJ, Harvard Dataverse

Uhl, Johannes H.: Animating 200 years of urban spatial development in 35 U.S. cities, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5446/48115

The movie at  https://doi.org/10.5446/48115 is supplementary material of the HISDAC-US data descriptor:
Uhl et al.: "Fine-grained, spatio-temporal datasets measuring 200 years of land development in the United States", Earth System Science Data, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-119-2021.