{"id":103569,"date":"2019-02-01T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T07:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cities-must-grow-up-to-survive-research\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T08:06:12","slug":"cities-must-grow-up-to-survive-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/cities-must-grow-up-to-survive-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities must "grow up" to survive: research"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHorizontal growth has been found to be less efficient than vertical growth, which ensures that new developments still have access to city services.
\nExpected to grow by 80 percent by the end of the next decade, urban areas could be in trouble if they fail to grow up rather than outward, reported Reuters citing a new report from Yale University and the World Resources Institute.
\nHowever, rampant speculation, poor land records and corrupt or weak implementation of regulations implies that cities are utilizing land inefficiently \u2013 increasing environmental risk and inequality as new residents take it upon themselves to resolve their problems, noted co-author Anjali Mahendra.
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\n\u201cWe talk about flooding in Jakarta and Indian cities, but people don\u2019t tie any of this back to land use. But now there\u2019s enough evidence that all of this is occurring because of over-development where services aren\u2019t available,\u201d said Mahendra, director of research at the institute\u2019s Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities.
\nShe explained that cities that grow at the behest of developers instead of being guided by policy result in development at the periphery.
\nThis type of development usually eats into forest or agricultural lands and expands into areas which are far from jobs and not connected to municipal services such as public transit and water.
\nThe report noted that access to services significantly drops just 5km from most city centres.
\nThe researchers in this study used a first-ever technique to combine satellite images monitoring how 499 of the biggest cities in the developing world expanded outwards with radar data of how these cities also grew upwards.
\nThe idea was that while horizontal growth is necessary, it is less efficient than vertical growth which ensures that new developments still have access to city services.
\nPast research usually looked at outward growth only and ignored \u201cinner-city redevelopment and changes in density\u201d, stated co-author Karen Seto of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
\nThe study found that among developing economies, vertical growth is almost confined to Chinese cities, while African and South Asian cities are seeing very little of it.
\nThis is a concern considering that about 90 percent of urbanisation through 2030 is expected to happen in Asia and Africa.
\nWith this, the international community has begun to discuss these issues, with some cities offering strong models on how to respond on these trends, said Mahendra.
\nJohannesburg and Mexico City, for instance, offer incentives only for developments within certain pre-defined areas in the city, while Thailand passed a law that allows new development only in areas where city services exist.
\n\u201cBut that\u2019s very, very rare in the Global South, where it\u2019s still very much private developer-led, outside of the purview of land regulations \u2013 if they even exist,\u201d she added.
\nTo know more about the master plans for different areas in Singapore, check out\u00a0PropertyGuru AreaInsider
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\nRomesh Navaratnarajah, Senior Editor at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact him about this or other stories, email\u00a0romesh@propertyguru.com.sg
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\nSource : proppertyguru.com.sg\/Property Market
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