Question: Some people think it is better to build more public parks and sports facilities in new towns rather than shopping malls. To what extent do you agree or disagree??

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Some people think it is better to build more public parks and sports facilities in new towns rather than shopping malls. I strongly agree with
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statement for several reasons.
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, parks and sport facilities improve the lifestyle of citizen. Taking into account parks, peolple could walk in the nature inside a city and
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could have 2 major benefits:
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, a short time in order to reach the park is needed compared to driving to the countryside.
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, parks and trees create oxygen and helps in purifying the air. To cite an example, Central Park in New York, create more than 30% of all the oxygen available. Talking about sport facilities, they could improve the general healt of citizen as people will be less sick. Studies suggest that nearly 50% of all people that uses sport facilities experience less accidents and healt problem compared to people that don't use to train.
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can result in a huge saving in public expenses related to social health. Shopping malls, on the other hands create a lot of negative aspects
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as increasing of pollution and traffic jams in the nearby roads.
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there is no nature as big parking lots are required in order to accomodate all the visitors.
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they could create new employment as more workers are needed in that area, is beneficial for the economy and
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is beneficial for governments as they could increase their taxes wages.
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, studies suggest that nearly 10% of all the US population works by a shopping mall. To sum up, it's extremely important to allow people to train and to walk in the nature, by doing so we could imporve our lifestyle and
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we can contribute to a more ecologycal enviroments.
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