CENSUS of Cities: LCZ Classification of Cities (Level 0) – Workflow and Initial Results from Various Cities

1 University of Hamburg, Germany; *benjamin.bechtel@uni-hamburg.de 2 University College Dublin, Ireland 3 University of North Carolina, USA 4 IIASA, Austria 5 National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland 6 Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil 7 University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 8 Politecnico de Milano, Italy 9 Jadavpur University, India 10 University of Coimbra, Portugal Institute for Research on Urban Sciences and Techniques, France 12 Government College University Lahore, Pakistan 13 National University of Colombia, Colombia 14 University of Vienna, Austria 15 University of Kansas, USA 16 University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka 17 International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia 18 Wageningen University, The Netherlands 19 University of Szeged, Hungary

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