Replication Data for: An indicator set for capturing long-term open space fragmentation and urban development dynamics

Understanding open space dynamics in relation to urban development is critical to the development and evaluation of such policies. Starting from a conceptual model that hypotheses how open space will have developed over the past century we use a set of landscape ecology based indicators to capture these changes from a societal (perceptional) perspective.

The indicators are applied to a newly compiled geodatabase of urban development in the Netherlands to show their performance in detecting and understanding past and future trends in open space provision. The relevant spatial data files are provided here as a geodatabase in ESRI's .gdb format and as separate shapefiles (both as a zipped package including all files and as separate zipfiles for individual shapefiles). The shapefiles can be used in many GIS packages.