Pandey, B., Brelsford, C. & Seto, K.C. Rising infrastructure inequalities accompany urbanization and economic development. Nat Commun

Objective:

• Study the structure and dynamics of urban infrastructure inequalities - to what extent are infrastructure ditributions preferentially allocated within and between regions of varying degrees of urbanization

Case:

• Global countries

Methodology:

• Inequality indicator
• Cross section analysis
• Mann-Kendall trend (Spatial-temporal)
• ML

Data Source

• Nightlight
• Population
• GDP

Findings:

• Nighttime lights-derived infrastructure tends to concentrate in space

• Urbanization and economic development were significant predictors of long-run infrastructure growth

• A dominant increasing inequality trend across countries

Coding Reference:

• Python and R