New Housing Construction as a Factor of Increasing the Vulnerability of Large Cities Population to Natural and Man-Made Hazards

Abstract

The  evolutionary  socio-economic  development  of cities can be greatly accelerated  under the stimulating  effect of housing,  commercial  or infrastructure  construction  projects that change  the  structural  and  functional  organization  of  the  urban  continuum   in  a  short time. At the same time, the existing official statistical data have low spatial and temporal detail – most of the demographic  variables have  an annual  representation  in the context of  municipalities, which  does  not  allow  considering  local  transformations.   The  use  of mobile operators data  and  information  on new  housing construction  makes  it possible to identify  the  directions  of morphological  and  functional  transformation  of urban  space, linking  the  directions  and  scale of changes  with  potential  natural  and  man-made risks for the study areas.