Trends in land use and development are made obvious with satellite imagery tracking changes during the 2010s.
Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui of The New York Times, worked with Tim Wallace and Krishna Karra from Descartes Labs, a geospatial analytics company to track trends in development over the past decade.
"With [satellite imagery's] growing power and precision, we can see both intimate details — a single home, bulldozed; a tennis court, reinvented — and big patterns that recur across the country," write Badger and Bui.
The trends they spot from above are illustrated in the source article, but they read as follows:
- The Exurbs Boom Again
- The Urban Core, Redeveloped
- Diversity Becomes the Norm
- Big Tech's Imprint
- Big Tech's Big Boxes
- Rust Belt Homes, Demolished
- Transit Transformations
- After Disaster, Renewal
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