Dataset for "Higher immigration and lower land take rates are driving a new densification wave in European cities"

Dataset for the article: Cortinovis C., Geneletti D., Haase D. (2022). Higher immigration and lower land take rates are driving a new densification wave in European cities. npj Urban Sustainability 2<strong>,</strong> 19. doi:10.1038/s42949-022-00062-0 <br> The dataset includes three excel workbooks. The main workbook "<strong>EU_cities_data.xlsx</strong>" calculates residential density in 2006, 2012 and 2018 and its trends in the two periods 2006-2012 and 2012-2018 for 331 European cities and greater cities. The worksheet "CITIES_GREATER_sel" is the basis to reproduce the analyses and figures presented in the paper and related Supplementary Material, using the code R code "EU_cities_plot" available at doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.19773151. <br> The main workbook is linked to two datasets containing demographic data for the selected cities and greater cities: - <strong>EU_cities_population.xlsx</strong>: total population at the 1st of January of the three reference years; - <strong>EU_cities_demo_balance.xlsx</strong>: data on births and deaths in each city during the analysed period, and calculation of net migration figures. <br> Population data are based on the Eurostat Urban Audit (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/cities/data/database) and on datasets from national statistical offices. The numerous corrections to the original Urban Audit database and the final source of each value are indicated in the two datasets (see worksheet "sources and legend"). Residential area and land take for residential use are based on the Copernicus Urban Atlas (https://land.copernicus.eu/local/urban-atlas) version 021 for the reference year 2012, version 012 for the reference year 2018, and the consolidated “Revised” version available in 2021 for the reference year 2006. <br> Cities’ and greater cities’ boundaries were retrieved from the GISCO Eurostat spatial database linked to the Urban Audit, version 2018 ( https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/urban-audit).