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"Sustainable Urbanism can be viewed as a new and emerging framework for interdisciplinary urban planning, design and management of our regions, cities, towns, neighbourhoods. 

It explores sustainability and urban design in a rapidly changing and urbanising world by focusing on the processes that shape the form and function of the built environment in its full complexity - the infrastructures, land developments, built landscapes and facilities that collectively make up the metropolitan regions. 

The synergy of multimodal transportation, sustainable economics, ecology and natural resources management, socio-cultural dynamics and physical urban form becomes crucial for creating liveable cities and communities of place that, together, within their hinterlands, produce sustainable metropolitan-regional cities. 

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Changes are needed in all levels of practice, mostly in ways of addressing transportation infrastructure.

If public transportation systems in general are going to become more accessible, affordable, reliable and more environmentally responsive, then coordination or multimodality between various means - walking pathways, cycling pathways, buses, commuter vans, light railways, subway, trains, high speed trains, ships, airplanes - is essential.

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Such a transformation will require deep macro and micro changes,
not just in energy sources and technology;
more than just deploying green technologies and adjusting our thermostats,
it will involve rethinking the way we live"

in "Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond: Rethinking Cities for the Future"

Tigran Haas (editor)