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Take the Tour
Take an exclusive tour with the Dr. Bill Ribarsky of the RENCI Situation Room at UNC Charlotte.
Four County Western Expansion of the Urban Growth Model
UNC Charlotte Collaboration Shows 500 Percent Increase in Western NC Developed Lands since 1976 Urban Growth Model to aid planners, guide development Asheville,...
Long Distance Touchtable Demostration
Video On November 19, team members from UNC Charlotte’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) demonstrated the Explorer TouchTable to a live audience—more...
Seminal NC urbanization study expands to Asheville, Triad and Triangle
CHARLOTTE, NC–Researchers at the Renaissance Computing Insitute (RENCI) at UNC Charlotte will expand their study of development patterns in North Carolina...
Land Consumption and Housing Growth
The following are interactive maps. The fist map shows the how many residential parcels that at greater than 3 acres are divided into smaller plots. The second map...
Lynx Effect On Housing
Mecklenburg County Lynx Homepage Summary of Methodology: Housing sale transactions from Mecklenburg County Property Records from 1997 to 2007 were used to create...
Mecklenburg’s Changing Population Density
Change in Population Density in Mecklenburg County This map illustrates the changes in population density in Mecklenburg County for three time steps: from 1970 to...
Modeling The Region’s Growth
This animated image shows the urban growth of the 14 rounty region surrounding Charlotte, NC. The time steps begin in 1976 and project into future year of 2030.
