A new look at antique US railroad maps reveals how cities grew over the past 200 years. The FT’s Alan Smith and Steven Bernard trace how cities, people and the economy spread from coast to coast.
Featuring data from the HISDAC-US Data Archive
https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/hisdacus
Based on this paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018175
“HISDAC-US, historical settlement data compilation for
the conterminous United States over 200 years.”
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