Development of the Istanbul region
Development of the Istanbul region
"In Istanbul, the city landscape is very compartmentalised and extremely heterogeneous," says Hannes Taubenböck of DLR's German Remote Sensing Data Center (Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum; DFD). 'Urban sprawl' is the name given to what happens around metropolises like Istanbul. "In the last 35 years, the area of Istanbul has tripled."
