In many places, new homes are needed, but the only space available for building them is in the countryside. Some people believe it is more important to protect the countryside and not build new homes there. What is your opinion about this?

In the

last

40 years, there has been a substantial growth in the population of many countries.

Such

growth is gaining more momentum as there is less work done in terms of sustaining socioeconomic and health conditions

that is

critical to advise people about birth control. Overall,

this

has been complicating and weakening the efforts made in the urban and sustainable design fields, which aim at providing new homes for the residents. Relevantly, there is a critical connection in any development scheme between urban and social development, sustainability, and economic.

Such

connection reflects the need to keep a healthy relation between the three aspects in order to come with a master plan that respects both, human needs and the natural environment.

On the other hand

, I believe the problem that urban planners face, is providing people with new settlement areas.

This

is considered an issue because there might not be enough space within the urban setting to satisfy people's needs.

Such

problem can be dealt with by directly building in the countryside.

However

,

although

this

might be the only solution in some specific cases, but it is generally a bad planning practice to come up with these easy solutions for many reasons.

For instance

, building on farm lands or agricultural areas affects the environmental sensitivity in a bad way, and puts more pressure on the natural regenerative ecosystem on

this

particular site. As well,

this

haphazard building pattern weakens the economy that depends agriculture.

Moreover

, it destroys the natural scenes.

This

unplanned urban development scheme can be clearly seen in the ring road that goes around Cairo city in Egypt as we can notice many buildings that are built on the agricultural lands there.

This

can be

also

seen Beirut city in Lebanon. Generally, I would stress on the fact that we need to plan new urban settlements in a more careful manner, which would allow us to meet the growing demand in the housing sector, while sustaining the natural environment.