DevDataLab launches open urban data platform for 10,000 cities, aiming to be the Penn World Table for cities
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-01
Economist Paul Novosad's DevDataLab released the Urban Growth Center platform covering the world's 10,000 largest cities, adding air pollution, traffic congestion, and Doing Business indicators.
- Aims to become a global standard for city economic data, analogous to the Penn World Table
- Motivation: statistical agencies in LMICs have rural biases, leaving fast-growing cities under-studied
- Aggregates satellite data from Google/Meta, regulations extracted from municipal documents with LLMs, and subnational surveys
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