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Today many buildings such as offices and schools have an open-plan design (no walls between areas for different activities) instead of separate rooms. Why is this? Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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Nowadays it is common to see school buildings and offices with no separating
walls
 but rather rooms.
This
 essay will look at some reasons for
this
 and the advantages it comes with.
To begin
 with, putting up structures is costly these days. The price of cement and
lands
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 are pricey. Primarily, one of the main
reason
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reasons
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 for not putting up
walls
 as a means of demarcation is to conserve space.
This
 is because
walls
 consume some land,
meanwhile
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such
 spaces could be utilized for other purposes of construction rather than building
walls
. Another factor is saving
money
. Putting up a wall requires concrete. In Ghana
for
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 example, the price of cement is a fortune. So authorities
will
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 rather save that
money
 for another project than
to
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just construct a separating wall. As already highlighted, there are some benefits to
this
. These are preserving lands and judicious spending. The lands that
will
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otherwise
 have been used to build
walls
 can serve as a source of
garden
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.
This
 will create job opportunities for people who will tend
such
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 gardens.
Also
, judicious
money
 spending stems from not investing in cement to put up
walls
 which wouldn't make much of a difference in the function of the structure as curtains can equally do these demarcations. The
money
 saved can be used in the health sector and subsidize tuition fees for education.
To sum up
, the common practice of not putting up separating
walls
 in buildings
such
 as schools and offices is a means of saving space and cost.
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