Many cities are now turning parks and farmland into new house developments.

Is it a positive or a negative development?

Negative
Brainstorm (ideas):
- Extinction of wild animals / deprive of natural habitats
- Lack of natural spaces
- Human health deterioration → get worse; exacerbate; aggravate
- Economic challenges: unemployment, increase in price of farm products

Body paragraph 1:
● Topic sentence: it may cause air pollution.
● Explanation: how? turning parks into new house developments is achieved by
cutting forests → greenery provide oxygen and limit CO2 in atmosphere
● Evidence: in KZ → we have less air to breathe.
● Effect: so what? Increase of toxic substances in the atmosphere.
● Concluding sentence: destroying parks and farmlands → negative effects on human
health

Body paragraph 2:
● Topic sentence: may cause a country's economy to decline.
● Explanation: farm workers / park workers / gardeners lose their job → unemployment
rate increases
● Evidence: In KZ farmers may have no experience / knowledge / education (high
requirements on job market)
● Effect: can’t pay their taxes; living conditions worsen
● Concluding sentence: may cause an economic crash.
Many cities are now turning parks and farmland into new house developments →
accommodation facilities, residential area

Many developed countries nowadays struggle with having less free area for public
accommodation. More accessible green lands, including city parks and rural farms, are being
turned into new apartment buildings as a reaction to the crowding. While I accept that many
people may feel neutral about this topic, it is my argument that it is a negative development due
to its significant effect on both human health and the country’s economy.
Turning parks and agricultural land into housing facilities can lead to severe issues with
human health. Indeed, the only way of making the adjustment from a city park to housing is to
cut off growing forests. Consider botanical gardens, which are the majority of developed urban
areas. If the plants occupying the gardens are eliminated or cut off, they will no longer be natural
“air purifiers”. This may result in the increase of toxic substances concentration in the
atmosphere, which highly induces permanent health effects like respiratory diseases. Thus, the
proposed change in urban planning has its impact not only on air pollution, but on public health
as well.
At the same time, reconstructing agricultural areas and parks might pave the way towards
the country’s economic downshift. In other words, a number of people working in the parks and
farms would be made redundant that would bring about massive unemployment. In Kazakhstan,
for instance, people tend to be employed in farms without having any experience and/or
knowledge in other fields. It is the workers who would have little chances to find new
occupations in the city and therefore, fail to be eligible to pay taxes and contribute to the
country’s economy. For this reason, the country might face a negative economic shift.
In conclusion, the methods of expanding city accommodations in the place of farms and
city parks might cause substantial repercussions, namely public health problems and decline in
the economy. Although others might think otherwise, I believe that constructing new
accommodation facilities using this approach to urban development is an unwelcome trend.

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