Urban Ecosystems 1: Cities are Urban Ecosystems

To understand that cities are urban ecosystems which include both nature and humans, in a largely human-built environmental context. To understand that urban ecosystems have “emergent properties” that cannot easily be seen by simply looking at the different functional parts of a city: The whole is more than the sum of the parts

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