Essay On Compact City

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The most significant topic that was discussed in this journal is that the compact city is more sustainable than urban sprawl. Compact city is whereby it provided a livable area which consists of infrastructures and services to be easily accessible from home to work in a way to maintain environment protection and reduce the warming of the earth. Compact cities is made up of nodes from one place to another, whereas urban sprawl is a city that grows unlimited outward of the development and is unsustainable which it can emerges into leapfrog development. Urban sprawl theory is an effect of cultures and automobile ownership. Urban growth has been inevitable throughout the time and caused population to compete for spaces. It has been estimated the population will be increasing in the coming years. Sustaining the city is important so that the future generations of the city can live in a healthy, social and political stable environment.
Kaji also (2003) mentioned that, compact city is an opportunity to form a sustainable city by two ways which are saving resources and energy and renewing the inner city to maintain the expansion of suburban in urban area. He also said that compact city and is associated by the interference of less dependent on automobile. For me, Neuman has highlight his idea that compact city is really sustainable in terms of …show more content…

Urbanization is a progress to future and modernity. The urban growth has caused the infrastructure and quality of life becoming intolerable. This is in regards of housing, water, sewerage, transport, electricity, community, security, open spaces and air quality. In terms of sustainability, it depends on how dwellers manage the situation. For example, different people have different perspective such as in terms of transportation, people may choose to walk or to drive their own car. This will contribute to the sustainability of a

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