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Taking into account, the availability of required data, the basic comparability between cities, city size and level of urbanization, and other factors, the book selected 26 provincial or autonomous region capital cities (due to lack of data, Lhasa City and Taipei City were not included), four municipalities and five cities with independent planning, resulting in a total of 35 cities for the analysis and assessment of sustainable city in China in 2008.
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Zhao, J. (2011). Calculation and Ranking of Sustainable City Development Level for Some Cities in China. In: Towards Sustainable Cities in China. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8243-8_4
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