Urbanization

GEOGRAPHY    HISTORYThe History of Urbanization from 3700 BC – 2000 ADStatistician and data visualization expert Max Galka has created a fascinating video that shows the history of urbanization from 3700 BC – 2000 AD. The data shown in the map comes from a Yale-led study published earlier this month in Scientific Data , which compiled the most comprehensive dataset on historical urban populations to date. Galka adds : The researchers compiled the data from two original sources: Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census by Tertius Chandler ...TWISTEDSIFTER.COM · 11 JULY 2016