Spatial imbalance of human settlements

If the population of a region is weighted too far toward small villages, urban civilization can never emerge; but contemporary trends for people to leave their farms, small towns and villages and crowd into the cities leaves vast areas depopulated and undermaintained. The population is weighted too far towards big cities, letting the resources of the land go to ruin.

1. Excessive size of metropolitan regions

1. Vulnerability of small towns
2. Unfocused design of community space
3. Uncontrolled physical expansion of cities
4. Over-spacing of suburban housing
5. Imbalance in city sizes within a country
6. Fragmented community image
7. Distant farm residences
8. Artificiality of parkland

1. Improving social planning for human settlements
2. Distributing human settlements

1. Rights
2. Inhumanity
3. Imbalance
4. Balance