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Located in the north of Spain, Vitoria-Gasteiz is the capital of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country (figure 7.1). It represents one of the three main Basque cities, together with San Sebastian and Bilbao. Although it is a very small Autonomous Community of over two million people and a land area of almost eight thousand square kilometers, it has a great cultural and identity strength, as well as an important economic and political weight.
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Orive, L.A., Lema, R.D. (2012). Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain: From Urban Greenbelt to Regional Green Infrastructure. In: Beatley, T. (eds) Green Cities of Europe. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-175-7_7
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