2 3 TAO PEI 4 State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute 5 of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, 11A, Datun Road 6 Anwai, Beijing 100101, China 7 8 SENSEable City Lab, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of 9 Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 10 11 12 Stanislav Sobolevsky (Corresponding Author) 13 Senseable...

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The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of City Planning or the City of New York nor the Census Bureau. The authors would like to thank Charles Alexander, Susan Love, and Gregg Diffendal of the Continuous Measurement Office of the Census Bureau, and Douglas Schuetz of the Rockland County Department of Planning, for...

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