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Generative & Parametric Urbanism
Mastery check · Module 6
Data & Analysis
10 questions · pass mark 70%. Answer each, check it, and see where you stand before moving on.
Question 1 of 10
Single answer
Why is the informal city systematically undercounted across urban data sources, rather than merely missed at random?
A
Because informal areas are genuinely empty of people and activity, so there is little to record
B
Because almost every source fails in the same direction at once - no clean cadastre, thin on OpenStreetMap, undercounted in the census, under-seen in mobility data, a grey mass from satellites - so the bias runs consistently against the poor
C
Because census takers deliberately falsify the numbers for informal settlements
D
Because informal settlements change too fast for any data to ever be useful
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