Excessive dispersion of community facilities

Public buildings and land areas play a critical role in maintaining civic pride, yet communities grow up in a haphazard and visually unpleasing manner. Many rural communities seem uncertain about their right to decide the use of land in their villages; as a result little space is designated for such things as a community meeting hall, plaza or even recreation area.

Studies of pedestrian behaviour in America show that people seek out concentrations in a community.

1. Very few communities have public facilities arranged in compact and meaningful ways: facilities should be grouped densely in small areas, such as small public squares. Conspicuous by their absence are: small squares surrounded by a combination of mutually supportive community facilities and shops; groupings of evening entertainments, to attract the citizen to a particular area yet leave him free to choose his actual form of diversion; groupings of kindergartens and small parks and gardens, so arranged that young families with children could use any of these facilities.

1. Unfocused design of community space
2. Physically inaccessible services

1. Unplanned women's centre
2. Undefined business centre
3. Lack of a religious centre

1. Unidentifiable urban neighbourhoods
2. Underutilized community facilities
3. Unavailability of community centres
4. Maldistribution of teachers
5. Ineffective operation of community networks
6. Inadequate recognition by institutions of the transition through adolescence
7. Inadequate primary health care
8. Inadequate dissemination of local information

1. Unstructured local government in small communities
2. Uncontrolled urban development
3. Lack of community plan
4. Inaccessibility of city centres to suburban residents

1. Unconvivial hotel environments for travellers
2. Insufficient separation among urban subcultures
3. Impersonality of public squares in cities

1. Supplying additional community facilities
2. Relocating community facilities
3. Providing sufficient central nodes
4. Managing community facilities
5. Doing without adequate central nodes
6. Dispersing community facilities
7. Designing focal community space
8. Defining village node
9. Creating focused town centre

1. Unplanned
2. Unfocused
3. Undefined
4. Lack
5. Excess
6. Dispersion
7. Community
8. Anticommunity