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Planning and Construction of City Clusters Since Reform and Opening-Up

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Since the reform and opening-up, the number of cities and towns and their overall scale in China have been expanding, which laid a solid foundation for the planning and construction of city clusters, the advanced form of cities.

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    Institute of Urban Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2014).

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    Sheng et al. (2015).

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    Liu (2012a).

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    Dong (2015).

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Liu, S. (2023). Planning and Construction of City Clusters Since Reform and Opening-Up. In: The Way of Urbanizing China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5443-8_5

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