Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps

Alexis D. Litvine, Arthur Starzec, Rehmana Younis, Yannick Faula, Mickaël Coustaty, Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Véronique Églin

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 2024, vol. 57, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: Using both “off the shelf” remote sensing software, machine learning and computational algorithms, this article details a new methodology to extract building and urban footprints from historical maps. We applied these methods to create the first dataset of all built-up areas (BUA) in Britain in the early nineteenth century, covering all locations with buildings in England, Wales, and Scotland. The developed methods can now be applied to other maps and regions to provide useful quantitative data for analyzing long-term urban development. The code and data created are made available with this article.

Date: 2024
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