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Hangzhou is a major Chinese city located at the centre of a prospering urban region in Zhejiang province, part of the rich Yangtze delta region. The municipality covers 16,596 km2 and has over six million residents with an estimated annual population growth of about 100,000 (HSS 2010). Urban growth takes place not only in the peri-urban area but in the urban core itself, which is still significantly expanding, while former rural farmland faces transition into the peri-urban area.
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Spiekermann, M. et al. (2013). Hangzhou: Fast Urbanisation and High Population Growth. In: Nilsson, K., Pauleit, S., Bell, S., Aalbers, C., Sick Nielsen, T. (eds) Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30529-0_12
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