That allowed us to consider cities like San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., separately — places that have independent housing trends but are lumped into the same larger metropolitan area.
The rise of cities in the modern world is undoubtedly not independent of the emergence of modern power-driven machine technology, mass production, and capitalistic enterprise.
现代社会城市的兴起当然与机器技术、大规模生产、资本化企业紧密相关。
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Dalian is one of the 15 sub-provincial cities, five cities with independent planning, one of the Northeast's third largest city.