June 9, 2016
MAP: Visualizing Urban Development from 3700 B.C. to 2000 A.D.
Previously, 6sqft featured an interactive map from Esri that showed how the world's population boomed over the course of 2,000 years. Now comes a new paper and visualization (h/t CityLab) from Scientific Data that takes population and archeological records from as far back as 2250 B.C. and transforms them into a fascinating map that reveals the world's first recorded urban centers, and how they've distributed themselves over 6,000 years.
the complete map here
the complete map here
