Projects

Map and explorer for nested economies of scale in city built mass across 3,000+ cities: how built mass scales with population at city and neighborhood levels.

Free desktop app that opens downloaded map data (Shapefile, GeoPackage, NetCDF, GeoTIFF, and more) as a map in seconds — no GIS training.

Global urban land expansion through 2050, from the Environmental Research Letters (2019) projections; data also on WRI Resource Watch.

3D flood exposure when building height and protection standards enter the assessment, across cities worldwide.

Difference-in-differences results on informal-settlement demolition and surface cooling: how much cooled, and what rebuilding did to the signal.

Open-source global urban land-expansion model that preserves Zipf's law of city sizes across scenarios.