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The City Needs Its Essential Systems: Sustaining the Primary Operations

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As a complementary section to Chap. 5, we look into some essential urban systems from the environmental sustainability perspective.

Chasing the light is not a necessity, but losing it will be extremely harmful.

—Ali Cheshmehzangi, 2018

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Cheshmehzangi, A. (2021). The City Needs Its Essential Systems: Sustaining the Primary Operations. In: Urban Health, Sustainability, and Peace in the Day the World Stopped. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4888-5_7

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