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Do you think the advantages of this policy outweigh the disadvantages for residents?

In some cities in northern China, such as Beijing, government urban planners normally divide the
whole city into 4 areas where shops, schools, offices, and residences are placed separatedly. From
my perspective, although this kind of policy can facilitates administration efficiency of
governments, the drawbacks outweigh the benefits.
It is true that this policy could make it easier for municipal/local government to manage the city.
The reason is that they could formulate targeted management measures and build special
supporting measures in different areas instead of worrying that certain regulations would affect
ordinary residents. To be more specific, transportation do not need to be banned in the
CBD(Central Business District) area at night because this area is where work is done rather than
for people to enjoy their sleep, which means that governments may not need to worry about the
honking of cars late at night disturbing people's rest. Therefore, this arrangement could allow
governments to manage various regions with less concern/in a more orderly manner. Residential
Albeit the government could improve their management effectiveness by adopting and adapting
such planning, it would bring a huge number of negative influences to the residents because
people would need to spend more energy and time on transportation. One example could be that
many office workers need to do grocery shopping after work. If the government lay out the zones
in such a way, these workers would have to drive at least 50 minutes from to commercial areas
where supermarkets are located to buy their daily necessities, and then they probably would need
to spend more time returning home in residential areas, which could waste their valuable time.
Therefore, this way of planning could sacrifice people’s convenience in daily life.
In conclusion, arranging shops, schools, offices, and homes in specific areas and separating them
from each other can help governments manage more easily in some cases. Nonetheless, I still
believe it could bring more serious disadvantage since it undermines life quality of people.

There is one bar chart illustrating how many apples and oranges each individual in five nations in
Europe consumed in 2013.
In overview, while the consumption of oranges per person was higher than that of apples in
Turkey, and Y country, every Austrian and people who live in X country loved apples more than
oranges; meanwhile, people in Denmark had the same preference for the two fruits.
Regarding apples, the consumption per person in Denmark was by far the largest, which was over
30 kilograms per person, whereas the quantity in Y country (about 7 kilograms per capita) was the
least. In X country, everyone ate 25 kilograms, which was nearly twice higher than that in Austria
and Turkey, at roughly 13 kilograms per person and per person in 12 kilograms respectively.
On the other hand, Turkish people ate oranges considerably more than any other country, which
was about per person in 38 kilograms. In contrast, Austrian consumed the least amount of oranges,
which was nearly 16 kilograms per person. Residents in Denmark consumed approximately 31
kilograms per person. The consumption of oranges in country Y and country X in 3013 was about
27 kilograms per person and 20 kilograms per person, respectively.

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