In many cities, planners tend to arrange shops, schools, offices, and homes in specific areas and separate them from each other. Do you think the advantages of this policy outweigh the disadvantages?

In a plethora of cities, settlement planners usually demarcate residential

areas

from

shops

,

schools

, and

offices

.

This

essay will analyze the benefits of

this

town layout as making a locality more organized, making the residential

areas

more secure; and the drawback of creating a

traffic

congestion problem, especially for the residents who have to travel distance to access workplaces,

schools

, and

offices

. On the one hand, when town plans are being done in

this

way, the settlement looks better organized and more beautiful, making places easy to trace or locate.

This

means that the town structure can be well understood by everybody, and one can easily make out directions to any area.

For example

, studying

such

places on Google Maps is easy to navigate.

Furthermore

, the residential

areas

are more secure, since they are sited separately from the office, market, or school environment, which means intruders or strangers can be easily monitored.

On the other hand

, when the home environment is separated from the

offices

,

schools

, and

shops

, it creates a major problem of

traffic

congestion, especially in the morning, when workers are leaving their various residential abodes to works,

schools

and or

shops

and

also

in the evening time when they will be rounding off the day's work, making people get late to work in the morning, and

also

late when getting back home in the evening. There will be a high density of

traffic

flux on the road, particularly in these periods.

This

is what often happens in major cities like Lagos, where workers have to have woken up very early in the morning to be able to get to the workplace on time, and

also

have to think of the headache of coming back home in the evening. In conclusion, planning towns in a way that separates the residential

areas

from the

offices

,

shops

, and

schools

have the benefit of making a place better organized,

however

, the main drawback is the heavy

traffic

congestion and its negative effects on city dwellers who have to face

this

every day, going from their residence to workplace, and vice-versa. I believe the disadvantages are more than the perceived benefits.