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Many cities are now turning parks and farmland into new housing developments. Is this a positive or negative development?

#cities #parks #farmland #developments #development
Rapidly growing cities have to improve
housing
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 environment by providing new apartments and fresh accommodation. Some people reckon that it is a positive improvement and some of them that it is not. From my point of view,
this
 development might cause some negative issues for people in the future. It is well known that parks, which are planted with various flora, can produce oxygen and maintain
the
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air quality. That’s why
dramatic
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decreasing
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of
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 planted parks can lead to
loosing
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 natural
tool
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 to filter pollution. Recent news showed that Jakarta, the capital
city
 of Indonesia become the most polluted
city
 in the world. The
city
 development is raising rapidly,
government
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the government
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 was
concentrate
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 on providing accommodation for
local
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 population, and forgot about
environment
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 improvement. That was the biggest mistake done by
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the Indonesian’s
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Indonesian’s
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authority
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 leading to massive air pollution.
City
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 become so contaminated that people
started
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get
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getting
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 diseases
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invoke
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 by pollutants.
Obviously
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 replacement
farmland
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of farmland
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into
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with
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 housing
area
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areas
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 can
case
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cause
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dramatic
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 raising
of
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in
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 prices due to using imported products. An excellent example of
such
strategy
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 is
city
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the city
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Mumbai
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of Mumbai
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 ,again,in India. Mumbai is known as
expensive
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an expensive
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city
, due to
fact
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 that all eatable products are costly
,
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 because governments have to import all products from downtown. It is clearly seen that replacement farmlands
it
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is
bad
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a bad
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 strategy for
development
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developing
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 cities. To conclude, it is clearly seen that transforming parks and farmlands into housing
have
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 a lot of negative effects leading to environmental and economic issues.
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