"Cities alter the urban landscape to a point where water hardly reaches soil for filtration and drainage, and rooftops squander solar energy that nature had used productively."

— Two very simple, but many times forgotten, ways in which cities affect the environment. By Pavlina Ilieva and Kuo Pao Lian in Learning from Informal Cities, Building for Communities

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