Urbanisation involves various social, economic, and spatial transformations that occur as as increasing proportion of the population lives in urban areas. Urban processes encompass the dynamics and interactions within urban areas, including population growth, land use changes, infrastructure development and economic activity, resource consumption, migration and socio-cultural shifts. Characterising urbanisation and urban processes with reliable data can be challenging. It involves understanding the dynamics, interactions,and patterns within urban areas and the identification of cause-effect relationships. As a multitude of urban-related datasets become available from various sources, in the recent past the number of activities attempting to combine these has been on the rise.
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