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Sensing, 30(24), 6531–6558.
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metropolitan areas. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 39(2), 224–232.
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is the city? Sustainability assessment and the management of urban environments (pp. 37–42).
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Y. Uchiyama, Y. (Eds.) Report of whole earth urban historical research project (pp. 25–37).
(written in Japanese).
Uchiyama, Y., & Mori, K. (2017). Methods for specifying spatial boundaries of cities in the world:
The impacts of delineation methods on city sustainability indices. Science of the Total Environment, 592, 345–356.
UNDESA (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division).
(2018). World urbanization prospects: The 2018 revision. Online Edition. Retrieved from
https://population.un.org/wup/Download/.
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2320–2329.
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