The Background of Compact Living

 Compact city and developing countries:

               In the 21^st century population grew and the urban environment was expanding. In 2001, the population grew to 6 billion but the researcher’s “ Hideki Kajiv, Hidehio keneagae, ken-chi isbashi, nobuhiro hera” mentioned that the population will reach 78 billion by 2025.

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This graph shows how population will grow in the years coming.

When the population growth was growing problems were arising which were the environment, energy problems and food crisis. As the living environment is not in a good condition as a lot of houses were being built, more people means more congestion, air population and also problems in tap water and sewage people were living in poor living.

How Compact Living can be used as a sustainable living.

With compact living it is possible to achieve and to solve these problems by having smaller houses we will have a larger green area to grow food. By building smaller house we can make them more energy efficient by using solar panels, and this will improve the economic living.

               In 1990’s EU has found it as an advantage to use compact living as urban sustainable form. By this we will reach the goal of Saving resources and energy and to re-produce the inner cities by building smaller houses and making them energy efficient.

               By this research compact city approaches could only be used to cities which have developed countries.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Hideki KAJI Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University Hidehiko KANEGAE Associate professor, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University Ken-ichi ISHIBASHI Lecturer, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University Nobuhiro HARA Associate Researcher, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University . 2003. compact city and developing countries . [ONLINE] Available at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/openmtg/docs/kaji.pdf. [Accessed 2 June 2016].