A City That’s Doing Something Right

Paul English 363 02/23/2012 A City That’s Doing Something Right Statistics predict that the global population in the year 2025 will be more than eight billion, and almost four billion of these people will be living in cities in developing countries. Population growth causes overcrowding. Overcrowding leads to air pollution, diseases, crime, and water/housing problems. Many people spend hours in gridlock trying to commute daily. How do we solve this? For affluent cities, it is not a big deal, but haw about cities like Curitiba, Brazil, which has an average income of only about 2,000per person per year. That is why they have established a list of priorities and are solving it creatively. One off this priorities is a recycling plant: poor people bring bags of trash to special centers and exchange it for fresh produce. After that, workers separate glass bottles, plastic, and cans from other trash. Another step is an Agricultural operation. It helps not only to cultivate new medicine, plant, and crops, but also actually it helps to solve social problems. The environmental problem are solved through bringing natural beauty into the city and creating a new pedestrian zone only walkers. However, global population growth can cause many serious problems, bat we can see that careful and creative planning can lead to solution. I think that overpopulation is the top

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