Problem
Over-spacing of suburban housing
Nature:
Housing in suburban settlements may be too widely spaced for genuine community development, too demanding of extended and thus expensive services, too wasteful of land and too sprawling to permit any real safeguarding of open space or providing of sufficient areas of recreation. These problems are at present a phenomenon of industrial society; but public policy confronts similar difficulties of over-extended services, access to work and potential sprawl, in the planning and upgrading of fringe communities around new cities in the developing countries.
Broader Problems:
Scattered housing locationsSocially inappropriate housingUnfocused design of community spaceSpatial imbalance of human settlementsObsolescence of suburban mode of human settlement Related Problems:
High cost of housing Aggravates:
Destruction of agricultural landDeclining agricultural landBreakdown in community security systemsGeographically undefined community limitsInaccessibility of city centres to suburban residents Strategies:
Planning suburban areas Subject(s):
Amenities → Housing, tenantsAmenities → Urban
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
23.10.2019 – 17:41 CEST