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“The greatest environmental gains from population density arise once destinations become so close to one another that people elect to get around all by themselves - the urban-transit equivalent of the point at which a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining.”

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Book:Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability

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