Megacities, cities so big that shelter more than 10 million lives, keep getting escalation in number. However, as of 2017, the distribution of megacities was mostly in Asia, eastern and southern part of the world.
Sheltering more than 10 million lives does not make megacities a good place for living. Unfortunately, the higher the number of the people living in megacities does not positively correlate with each individual’s life quality.
This issue was already mentioned and predicted long time ago. In 2011, Forbes disclosed existent problems with megacities. The problems vary, starting from overpopulation, unemployment, pollution, high crime rates, up to unequal economic distribution among residents. Of course, that is not everything.
Governments of megacities surely have a hard time in ensuring the life quality of such extraordinary number of people. Accordingly, this is so because it will be very hard to equally develop and distribute the services to every single corner of the city.
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With this in mind, the crux might lie in the inaccurate spatial planning to host such life. If, by any chance, governments do not administer the best planning, the life quality and existent problems might be worse.
In countering the issue, specifically about spatial planning, governments of megacities in Asia, or in other continents, can follow the example of Lot Fourteen. Basically, Lot Fourteen helps the planning of good neighborhood to shelter futuristic and nearly idealistic types of living.
With that being said, what is Lot Fourteen to be precise? Also, how can Lot Fourteen increase the life quality?
Lot Fourteen
Currently developed in Adelaide, Australia, Lot Fourteen is an ideally-designed neighborhood in which people have the guarantee to experience the best living and working experience. However, how so?
In the context of spatial planning, Lot Fourteen ensures the availability and balance between the number of vital services in a neighborhood and its residents. By executing a detailed calculation to the foregoing, the government would be able to provide the best living area possible for people.
In so doing, several services such as affordable housing, hospitals, work spaces, schools, art gallery, urban open spaces, police stations, public transportation, and so forth must present. Additionally, each neighborhood must possess the aforesaid services.
Considering megacities in Asia, this is what they lack of. A suitable spatial planning to shelter huge numbers of people is to be specific. Thus, by implementing such spatial planning as in Lot Fourteen, existent problems might be significantly reduced.
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