Cities Will Be The Future Of Residential Housing

The world that we have grown up in is changing. By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban areas. This will

The aim of the City of Sydney Affordable Rental Housing State Environmental Planning Policy Strategy (SEPP) is to protect existing affordable housing and to facilitate ¬¬¬¬¬new affordable housing in the City of Sydney to provide for social, cultural, environmental and economic sustainability. The key of this strategy is to increase the amount of affordable rental housing in the local area to very low, low and moderate income households; protect existing stock of low cost rental accommodation; encourage a diverse range of housing in the local area; and work with other inner Sydney councils to address affordable rental housing at a regional level. According to the SEPP, affordable housing is refers to housing that does not take more than 30% of a very low, low or moderate household’s income. It defines affordable housing as very low income household as

affordability in the area and create higher density housing with a planned 2,828 new dwellings. It plans to have diverse housing types for all socio economic groups to prevent exclusion and support the economic and social sustainability of the area.

We have already seen increase prices for properties in the inner city. As the prices continue to rise, this will make houses less and less affordable. Bernard Salt (2001), declare that this revival will only last another 10 to 15 years, after that the market demand will fade. More important even if the trend doesn’t change, it will mean that more high-medium density dwelling needs to be constructed to satisfy the demand. Consequently, this will threatens the available green space in the metropolitan area.

Americas suburbia requires the full reallocation of resources in order to survive. We totally dictated most of the resources — manufacturing economy for a building economy — when we witness the housing bubble which lead us on building on stuff with no actual future. In response, we are fighting a campaign to sustain the unsustainable, instead of reinventing our way to connect. For

Jane Jacobs begins chapter eleven, about the last condition necessary for the existence of diversity: that there should be a dense concentration of people including residents. The main success factor in this condition is based on population density. The chapter starts off by Jacobs beginning statement supported by Samuel Jackson. The relationship of concentration can also be known as high density to conveniences and to other kinds of diversity is generally well understood as it applies to downtowns. Jacobs notes that high dwelling densities have a bad name in orthodox planning and housing theory; they are supposed to lead to every kind of difficulty and failure. If there is high population densities in residential areas that does not necessarily mean that it will lead to the slums. There is a supposed correlation that is incorrect between high densities and trouble, or high densities and slums.

As urban development progressively changes people’s living behaviors, gentrification has created new urban movements for everyone to follow. It refers to the special migration in population who is seeking either a better living space and/or a better employment environment through an intra-city moving. As many studies have discovered, the future global population growth will only take place in the urban area. It is projected to be a 70% of the 9 billion future populations to live in cities in 2050. (Maarten Hajer 61) As the observable trend along with the major bus routes in San Francisco and Oakland, it makes people believe that gentrification will become an unpreventable force to

As any good realtor will say, there are three main important factors to remember when buying or renting a piece of property: “location, location, location”. Oftentimes, the location of ones home will have some of the biggest impacts on their lives. Since we live in a capitalist society where work is key to survival, location has a major affect on work. The importance of location can become a problem when work and the rest of one’s life become separate. Before the industrial revolution, work and the house were intertwined with both activities taking place in the same location. However, after the industrial revolution, work was moved outside the home and into the factory. Though our current society is not structured around factories, the physical location of the workplace remains separated from the home. This can lead to conflicts between where someone lives, sometimes without much of a choice, and the work available. The crux of this is the Spatial Mismatch theory which is the idea that the economic restructuring that has taken place in the past decades has lead to the loss of work opportunities for low-income and minority workers due to work being moved away from where they live. Economic restructuring such as deindustrialization has moved many jobs away from the city and urban setting and into the suburbs where low-income and minority workers may not have an opportunity to live. In addition to the movement of jobs, the importance of transportation, both private and public,

Donovan Rypkema, principal of PlaceEconomics, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate and economic development-consulting firm said:
 “Current architectural and urban planning trend to build up our city cores/downtowns is really costing our cities their culture and heritage. By demanding density you are costing affordable housing, historic preservation, small business incubation. There needs to be a balanced

In the eighteenth and nineteenth century urban populations grew rapidly through migration from rural areas to find new jobs in the cities created by the industrial revolution, which led to 6,5 million inhabitants in London. In the twentieth century cities kept growing and in the 1950’s around thirty percent of world’s population was urban. The first mega city in the world emerged, as New York City broke the boundary of ten million inhabitants around 1930 (Wendell Cox Consultancy, 2005). In 1990 there were ten megacities that were home to 153 million people which is less than seven percent of the global urban population. In 2014 the amount of megacities has almost tripled to 28 with a population of 453 million people, which account for twelve percent of the global urban population. The total urban population in 2014 was 54 percent (UN, 2014). These numbers can be related to the second important event,

If we are going to decarbonise our cities and regions, we need to promote high density urban development. Increasing density reduces the size of houses and overall its consumption of resources (Rauland and Newman 2011). The authors further contend, therefore that "increasing density has numerous other benefits, including enabling better public transport infrastructure such as light rail and trains as well as increasing the walkability of cities, all of which will significantly reduce transport emissions" ( Rauland and Newman p. 6. 2011). Adding density to transform cities can also improve quality of life by offering more local amenities and better lifestyles ( Rauland and Newman 2011). The Cockburn Town Centre development is perfect example.

The author uses facts, logical reasoning, and rhetorical devices to persuade an audience that vertical expansion of urban areas is a good

Density growth is the solution for a sustainable city, more affordable housing and a better quality of life. People usually surprise about that

But this is not the only reason the supply – side factors also influenced in the fact of high price like the ability to built new housing on the city fringe, factor affecting the ability to increase supply closer to the city, transport infrastructure and community affect the feasibility and desirability of living in a different place.

We are aware that with increasing migration to urban centers by both professionals seeking work, as well as those in low-skill, no-skill industries, there are increasing challenges for these various stakeholders and decision makers in the area of providing adequate housing, infrastructure, and services that reach the poor and lower-middle class residents, while also providing infrastructure that serves investors well and will attract their more highly paid professional staff to areas where they would like to develop