{"id":10,"date":"2026-09-10T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/?p=10"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:26:39","slug":"initial-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/notes\/initial-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-fern-deck wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese social media \/ consumer review app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dianping.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dianping.com\/\">Dazhong Dianping<\/a> numbers the largest 200 metropolitan areas in China, perhaps not exactly by population, but the rankings match rather closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excluding Beijing, Shanghai, and other top super-cities,  we have assembled a randomized list of 36 cities to examine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" allow=\"local-network-access; geolocation\" title=\"Biggest Chinese Cities\" src=\"https:\/\/ucsb.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?configurableview=true&#038;webmap=7e309131727b482ca8b67185b2942fb4&#038;theme=dark&#038;heading=true&#038;scroll=false&#038;center=102.26915356142578,37.25370845827541&#038;scale=18489297.737236\" ><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<!-- Add custom element to <body> of your page -->\n <arcgis-embedded-map style=\"height:600px;width:700px;\" item-id=\"7e309131727b482ca8b67185b2942fb4\" theme=\"dark\" heading-enabled time-zone-label-enabled center=\"102.26915356142578,37.25370845827541\"scale=\"18489297.737236\" portal-url=\"https:\/\/ucsb.maps.arcgis.com\"><\/arcgis-embedded-map>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese social media \/ consumer review app Dazhong Dianping numbers the largest 200 metropolitan areas in China, perhaps not exactly by population, but the rankings match rather closely. Excluding Beijing, Shanghai, and other top super-cities, we have assembled a randomized list of 36 cities to examine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}