AGSL GeoDiscovery

Central Business District, Kigali, Rwanda, 1990

Description:

This point layer displays the Central Business District (CBD) of Kigali, Rwanda as a point corresponding to the location of its city hall. For the compactness metrics, the proximity index measures the relative closeness of all locations in the city to its center. To calculate the proximity index, the Equal Area Circle was defined as a circle with an area equal to that of the urban footprint centered at the city's city hall within the CBD. This data is part of the Atlas of Urban Expansion. The Atlas of Urban Expansion provides the geographic and quantitative dimensions of urban expansion and its key attributes in cities the world over. The data and images are available for free downloading, for scholars, public officials, planners, those engaged in international development, and concerned citizens. The global empirical evidence presented here is critical for an intelligent discussion of plans and policies to manage urban expansion everywhere. This resource provides both the conceptual framework and, for the first time, the basic empirical data and quantitative dimensions of past, present, and future urban expansion in cities around the world that are necessary for making minimal preparations for the massive urban growth expected in the coming decades.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/wz501xd5000

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/wz501xd5000

Language:

eng

Creator:

Angel, Shlomo, Parent, Jason, Civco, Daniel L., and Blei, Alejandro M

Publisher:

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Point data

Subject:

Urbanization, Metropolitan areas, Cities and towns, Central business districts, City halls, Society, and Imagery and Base Maps

Theme:

Society, Imagery, and Land Cover

Temporal Coverage:

1990-2000

Date Issued:

2012

Spatial Coverage:

Kigali (Rwanda)

Rights:

This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use.

Rights Holder:

This work is in the Public Domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright.

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile

Georeferenced:

false