With more than half the world now living in cities and urban land cover expected to increase by about 1.2 million square ...

Three percent of the world's land surface is covered with urban areas, an increase of at least 50 percent over previous estimates, scientists said this week. The Global Rural Urban Mapping Project ...

"More than half of the urban land cover on the planet by 2030 has yet to be built," Seto explains. "The expansion of urban areas will have a direct impact on biodiversity hot spots." ...

A research team led by the University of Aberdeen has developed a pioneering AI model to improve accuracy and reduce ...

Africa's urban land cover will grow the fastest, at 590 percent above the 2000 level of 16,000 square miles. Urban expansion will be concentrated in that continent's five regions: ...

Roughly 3% of the world's land surface is urban. The graphic above shows the relative amount of urban land cover in the United States. For illustrative purposes, imagine it was a dartboard.

Hossain, E. , Tahia, F. , Siemens, A. , Islam, M. , Rahman, Z. and Ahmad, I. (2025) Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Land Use ...