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Sustainable urbanism in broad terms could be defined as integrating walkable and easily traversable urbanism incorporated with high performance buildings and a high performance and currently relevant infrastructure. This definition summarizes the concept of sustainable urbanism adequately, and touches on two important considerations.
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Lambrechts, J., Sinha, S. (2016). Designing and Planning for Sustainable Urbanism with Focus on Developing Countries. In: Microsensing Networks for Sustainable Cities. Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28358-6_8
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