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URBAN DEVELOPMENT

5- Maintain regional food production potential

6- Create an urban environment on a human scale Adopt the
transportation system.

Urbanization and its consequences

The Consequences of urbanization makes a major contribution to the

global environment changes that threaten the existence of life in the future,

while changes in the biosphere increasingly affect health and social
condition in the cities.

Urban health problems:

• City is not a homogenous entity; it is composed of low, middle and

high income groups. Health among also varies according to their
physical condition, environment and life styles.

• The urban poor people have "inherited poverty", unemployment,
malnutrition, communicable diseases, poor shelter and lack of social
and health amenities, they can't afford safe water, proper sanitation,

nor disposal of solid wastes.

1- Communicable diseases: communicable diseases flourish where the

environment fails to provide barriers against pathogens. The risks are
increased by overcrowding, poor sanitation.

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