Importance of Urban Planning in Real Estate Development
The rapid population growth pushes urban developers to ensure the settlers are safe and have good health and lifestyles by providing a better environment.
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Urban planning involves shaping, designing, and structuring cities and growing towns in terms of transportation systems and buildings and offering public spaces to exhibit good amenities. A well-planned urban area for occupants provides a solid framework for development and positively affects the economy.
For a place to be livable, a framework needs to be put in place to enhance sustainable human settlement that can withhold natural problems, i.e., environmental, economic, and social. Therefore, for the occupants to have a lavish and good lifestyle full of bliss, urban planning has to play a central role in the construction of the intended building structures by the developers for them to remain functional and increase in demographic and business attraction. Henceforth, urban planning plays a vital role in enhancing and ensuring the following:
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With the ongoing climate change debate, developers are adopting low-impact development projects that should not jeopardize the living standards of human settlements. Because of the rising population due to general opportunities in the cities, there is a need for urban planning that is going to ensure the facilitation and accommodation of the large population moving in. The developer ensures in the plan that there is good transportation and health care, which enhances the rapid growth of the cities as far as the economy is concerned. This is because there is a high population from both the city and the neighboring rural areas, hence an increase in the economic percentage.
The rapid population growth pushes urban developers to ensure the settlers are safe and have good health and lifestyles by providing a better environment. This is done through the collection of garbage and unwanted materials by machines to advocate for cleanliness for the citizens. Urban planning also helps the newly elected leaders in the cities to have a master plan that guides them to go in line with the city’s future plan and vision instead of using meandering ideas without a plan, leading to the wastage of resources in non-profit projects That is why, recently, the United Nations issued development goals to reach sustainability and impact assessment, which is Mandatory for development projects in urban areas.
Generally, worldwide, cities are competing to attract investment for economic generating activities; therefore, planning for economic zones and industrial development has a great positive impact on a city’s ability to create jobs for the settlers( Urban Gateway 2021). Henceforth, it’s a wake-up call for our government, in conjunction with its expertise in urban planning, to have a look at the United Nations' development goals to help them develop the best master plan for urban development that will attract investment and make the country’s economy boom.
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