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An Appraisal on Literature Review

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Literature referred and utilized by the research investigators are valued in this chapter. As the urban infrastructure domain covers range of academic and professional disciplines, it warrants a comprehensive consultation of literature from local to global levels and also from unpublished sources to pervasive sources to lay a sound understanding of the challenges and the multifarious characteristics of urban infrastructure issues.

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Tiwari, A. (2016). An Appraisal on Literature Review. In: Urban Infrastructure Research. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30403-8_3

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