The digital urban frontier: Disparities in social media activity between consolidated and newly urbanized areas in Africa
• Newer parts of African cities exhibit lower density of geotweets. • Digital disparity is linked to settlement structure and intensity of plannedness. • Digital urban frontier often lags behind the physical urban frontier. • Urban expansion analysis using data from social media and remote sensing.
Authors
- Johannes Mast (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6595-5834)
- Richard Lemoine-Rodríguez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3679-6958)
- Christian Geiß (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7961-8553)
- Justice Nana Inkoom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-5059)
- Marta Sapena (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3283-319X)
- Hannes Taubenböck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4360-9126)
- Henri Debray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4329-0541)
Institutions
- University of Bonn (DE)
- University of Würzburg (DE)
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) (DE)
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Applied Geography
- Published
- 2025-06-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103687
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.35