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The anthropogenic pursuits and human interventions have brought enormous transformation in the bio-physical sphere of the urban ecosystem. The cities are centers of economic development but at the same time are complex bio-physical entities, intricately inter-woven where alteration in one component has repercussion on the other. It implies that, ruthless anthropogenic activities in the urban areas are creating disorder or entropy in the system and transforming cities to a dissipative structure. Being biotope of the human species, urban structures must meet, not only the economic, social and political rights of the people, but also their biological and neuro-physiologic requirements. The present chapter focuses on identifying the drivers of urban unsustainability and explores the feasibility and potential of the very concept of urban sustainability. The main research methods employed for this study were observation and in-depth review of literature.
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Prasad, V. (2023). Urban Sustainability: The Way Forward. In: Chatterjee, U., Antipova, A., Ghosh, S., Majumdar, S., Setiawati, M.D. (eds) Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25914-2_1
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