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What keeps suburbs and apartments complexes from being autonomous?

What keeps suburbs and apartments complexes from being autonomous?

Are there legal regulations that keep residential spaces tied to municipal systems instead of allowing them to create their own that are connected to nature?

To recycle waste, grow food, collect and naturally filter water, create and use natural or their own forms of energy….things that remove the middle man/3rd party structures that make people reliant on them?

If communities wanted to move to reconnected systems, could they or would laws have to change?

Yes, i am GREEN to all kf this so my question might seem dumb to those of you who know what i do not. Please be kind (or dont. Thats fine too.).

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Rutger Wilschut & Hannah Ruppert: Contrasting responses of naturalized alien & native plants to native soil biota & drought 

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