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@statstas In earthquake country, most buildings are 3 stories or less, and there, urban is more defined by the density of people and the built environment.

@vb_jens So cool! What's the data that goes into this? I can't believe you have the building-level data on the number of stories.

@statstas This is census data. The enumerators classify the buildings, with one category being “Apartment, 5 or more storeys”, and the census counting how many dwelling units and households are in each building. Which is what gets reported.

@vb_jens wow. So I got lucky that my "definition" actually aligns conceptually with the Census data!

I doubt we have that in the U.S. though 😕

@statstas US splits this differently, there you can get buildings with 10 or more apartment units.

@vb_jens that ain't the same... but thanks for pointing this out, I looked at the again, Q1 in the housing module is asking that number in rough breaks 10-19, 20-49, 50+, but this is only residential. The office skyscraper blocks would be grey on this map.