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The most significant worldwide social change that has occurred in the last 200 years has been the large-scale agglomeration of the world’s population in urban areas. During 2008, the proportion of the world’s population who lived in urban areas reached 50% for the first time in history, symbolizing the beginning of the era of an urban-dominated society
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Zhao, J. (2011). Brief Review of Sustainable City. 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_1
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