Implementation Of The Monitoring Of Urban Expansions Project

It has become quite evident that we cannot hope to slow down the urbanization process or to shift populations among cities. For practical purposes, the growth of the population of cities can be taken as given and there is little we can do about it. However, when we translate this population growth to the expansion of urban areas needed to accommodate it, there is a lot we can do. We all understand what it means to prepare adequate land for orderly urban expansion, enough land to accommodate both residences and workplaces, so as to ensure that there are no land supply bottlenecks and that land—and particularly residential land—remains affordable for all.