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The difficulty of accurately identifying urban areas means that we need to create a rich combination of criteria that can be applied to all urban areas.

With the diversity of urban landscapes, measurable criteria for defining urban areas may need to be supplemented with human judgement.

Current methodologies used to define urban and rural areas are no longer relevant to our being able to study trends in urbanisation.

Distinguishing between urban and rural areas might call for some judgement on the objective methodology being used to define a city's functions.

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