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Participants from grades 1 to 4 completed the 2-year follow-up.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposures<\/jats:title>Urban living environment<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>The association of urbanization with the incidence, progression, prevalence, and severity of myopia. To quantify urbanization, an urban score was constructed using satellite data and an iterative exploratory factor analysis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Of 177\u202f894 students (51.7% male; mean [SD] age, 10.27 [1.75] years) included in the study, 137\u202f087 students (52.3% male; mean [SD] age, 8.97 [1.21] years) were followed up for 2 years. A positive association was identified between myopia incidence and urbanization. Specifically, each 1-unit increment in the urban score was associated with an increased risk of myopia over a 1-year period (odds ratio [OR], 1.09; 95% CI, 1.01-1.15; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.02) and a 2-year period (OR, 1.53; 95% CI, 1.50-1.57; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001). Conversely, each 1-unit increase in the urban score was associated with a significant decrease in myopia progression at 1 year (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.82-0.86; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001) and 2 years (OR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.70-0.75, P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001). In a cross-sectional data analysis, the urban score was positively associated with myopia prevalence (OR, 1.62; 95% CI, 1.08-2.42; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.02) and negatively associated with myopia severity, as indicated by spherical equivalent refraction (OR, 1.46; 95% CI, 1.07-1.99; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.02).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>This study exploring urban living environments and myopia revealed dual associations of urban living with both the incidence and the progression of myopia. 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