Published 2023 – 2024 | Version Version 2 (V2)
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LURs of Africa, local units composition V2

  • 1. ROR icon University of Lausanne

Contributors

Data curator:

  • 1. ROR icon University of Lausanne

Description

This dataset provide the definition of the 304 Large Urban Regions (LURs) in Africa, and contains information on the composition of local units in Africa

LURs are an aggregated set of localities forming consistent regions around cities

For the definition of LUR, see Rozenblat (2020) and for the building method of African LURs see Rogromel (2024)

 

Technical info (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

This dataset provides the geographic coordinates of the MUAs-core of Africa's 304 LURs.

The core MUAs are connected to the urban areas and localities that depend on them to form the LURs.

For the definition of LURs, see Rozenblat (2020) and for the method of constructing African LURs, see Rogromel (2024).

Other (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

The extracted files include several shapefiles, each with associated components: municipalities (MUNIs), Morphological Urban Areas (MUAs), Functional Urban Areas (FUAs), and Large Urban Regions (LURs).

These files enable the visualization and analysis of geospatial data related to various administrative and urban entities belonging to Local Urban Regions (LURs).

It includes geospatial information on boundaries of the entities forming the LURs

Files

LURs_Local_components_Shapefiles_V2.zip

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Additional details

Additional titles

Other (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
LURs of Africa, Latitude and Longitude V2
Other (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
Shapefile of LURs' local components V2

Related works

Is previous version of
Dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/10402158 (Other)

Dates

Other
2024-07-29

References

  • Rozenblat, C. (2020). Extending the concept of city for delineating large urban regions (LUR) for the cities of the world. Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography.