Introductory Paper

Introductory Paper

Introduction

The balance between the mix of services offered and resources produced in a country is greatly affected by the rate with which rural areas are converted to urban areas. United Nations (2006) estimates that the world population is going to increase by 2.5 billion people in the next 43 years. This is going to pose a number of social and economic challenges to town and industrial planning in the United States. This paper introduces the issues that are likely to arise in the future due to a lack of urban planning that is needed to coup with the large ...