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The Largest City on Earth
Six thousand years of the world's biggest city, from Uruk to Jakarta, and how the centre of the urban world wandered.
This is an interactive data study by Dr Tristan Hotham, built from open data. The map runs in your browser: explore it, search for places and switch layers. The write-up explains the method and what the data shows, and the data and code are open for anyone to reuse.
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