Urban Regulating Services Across 12,079 Global Cities

12,079 functional urban areas worldwide are analyzed for per-capita co-located regulating services like water and heat regulation. Jaqueline S quantified services for water and heat regulation, carbon and oxygen regulation, and runoff retention, revealing universal compression across climate zones. The dataset was last updated on May 7, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze urban scaling effects on ecological service compression based on city size.
• Compare inequality in service allocation between Global North and Global South cities.
• Identify characteristic city types based on spatial constraints in urban form and service supply.
• Model strategies for bridging inequality by targeting primary constraints in each city type.

Strengths

• Covers 12,079 functional urban areas worldwide.
• Quantifies three distinct regulating services: water and heat regulation, carbon and oxygen regulation, and runoff retention.
• Analyzes data across all climate zones.
• Dataset size is 1.4 GB, indicating substantial data volume.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Likely constructed from spatial and demographic data for functional urban areas.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 03:37:20; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global coverage of 12,079 functional urban areas.