Digital Urban Growth Models
Tags: asheville, North Carolina, urban growth model, western north carolina
Four country western expansion urban growth model from UNC Charlotte Urban Institute on Vimeo.
North Carolina is one of the states that is losing farmland most rapidly in the US. Researchers at UNC Charlotte and UNC Asheville are using satellite images, development trends, population data, and growth projections to create a visual digital model of what North Carolina may look like in the future.
So far, they have found that four western North Carolina counties (Madison, Buncombe, Henderson and Transylvania) have developed by 500 percent between 1976 and 2006, which is at an average rate of six acres of green space per day! More shockingly, the model predicts that an additional 47,500 acres of forests and farmlands will … Continue Reading
