Environmental Systems: What Keeps a Country Running Series

Part 1.5: The Foundations

Foundational systems keep people alive. If they fail, nothing else matters.

Sicily

RECAP

This series looks at a country through an urbanist’s lens: as a network of systems that have to function together for life to feel stable. Altogether we’ll look at fifteen systems—public health, water, food, energy, environment, housing, transportation, labor, educatio…