Inadequate town planning

Unplanned and poorly managed urban growth causes environmental stress. Because of their concentrated nature, urban centres are significant consumers of natural resources. Where they are poorly managed, the uncontrolled spread of towns and cities contributes to unsustainable production and consumption patterns. The resulting impacts on land and water resources and on the atmosphere can be severe. Moreover, poorly-managed cities lead to negative health and environmental impacts for residents.

1. Uncontrolled urban development
2. Lack of planning
3. Inadequate city governance

1. Unrelated buildings in urban environments
2. Unimaginative city plan
3. Underdeveloped road network
4. Uncertain land zoning
5. Unattractive development sites
6. Single-use urban areas
7. Rigid zoning requirements
8. Maldistribution of urban shopping facilities
9. Inadequate transport planning
10. Inadequate arrangement of housing with respect to common land
11. Geographically undefined community limits

1. Widespread urban destruction
2. Unsustainable consumption patterns
3. Uncontrolled physical expansion of cities
4. Threatened species of large urban trees
5. Socially inappropriate housing
6. Monolithic architecture of high-rise buildings
7. Limited transportation services in cities
8. Lack of places in urban environments encouraging unstructured public access
9. Lack of community plan
10. Inadequate urban political machinery
11. Haphazard community growth patterns
12. Exploitative property development
13. Environmental stress of natural systems
14. Environmental degradation of suburbia

1. Unchallenging world vision

1. Fragmented planning of community life
2. Deficient social planning

1. Town planning
2. Planning cities
3. Encouraging land development
4. Coordinating land development

1. Unplanned
2. Inadequacy
3. Nebulous
4. Uncontrollability