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It might can cost you on your Health ! Long commutation hours, snarled traffic, deforestation, more solid waste and increased pollution are some of the well-known ill-effects of real estate growth. Apart from the environmental loss, there is more personal loss to the health and wealth people residing in more sprawling communities. I recently came across the reading on a popular commercial real estate news about a research undertaken by University of Utah which claimed that as a metro area gets more sprawling, so does the likelihood of obesity. Longer distance, more obesity Significantly lower blood pressure and lower rates of diabetes were also found in denser cities. The reason quoted was that people who live in more urban areas walk more, but the study's primary researcher says there's more to it than that. A commercial real estate news quoted that "The amount of time one spends in a car in a sprawling region is such that it eliminates time for a whole range of other activities, including those that are more active," said Reid Ewing, professor of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah. He said the development in those areas plays a role, too, "In sprawling areas strip-commercial development and fast food restaurants bias the food choices." Less space, more Successful Researchers looked at several factors to determine a city's ranking, including development density of population living near jobs. They also measured the walkability area of the streets. The researchers also connected lower sprawl with greater economic mobility. For every 10 percent increase in the index score, there is a 4.1 percent probability that a child born to a family in the bottom of the national income distribution reaches the top by age 30. A low income person living in a very compact area has a much better access to jobs as they cover shorter distance to where the jobs are and has better transportation options. Cost-Benefit Analysis The combined cost of housing and transportation is lower for more compact areas. Transportation costs decline faster than the housing prices, with city dwellers having more transportation options, including mass transit, biking and walking which decreases the cost of driving. In Tampa, Fla., the average household spends 56 percent of its budget on housing and transportation, while in Seattle those expenses account for 48 percent of the budget. Development seems to be moving away from the sprawl that last boomed with the housing market in 2006. Home creators are now more focused to build a Market Place than a place for dwelling.
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It might can cost you on your Health !
Long commutation hours, snarled traffic, deforestation, more solid waste and increased pollution are some of the well-known ill-effects of real estate growth. Apart from the environmental loss, there is more personal loss to the health and wealth people residing in more sprawling communities.
I recently came across the reading on a popular commercial real estate news about a research undertaken by University of Utah which claimed that as a metro area gets more sprawling, so does the likelihood of obesity.
Longer distance, more obesity
Significantly lower blood pressure and lower rates of diabetes were also found in denser cities. The reason quoted was that people who live in more urban areas walk more, but the study's primary researcher says there's more to it than that.
A commercial real estate news quoted that "The amount of time one spends in a car in a sprawling region is such that it eliminates time for a whole range of other activities, including those that are more active," said Reid Ewing, professor of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah. He said the development in those areas plays a role, too, "In sprawling areas strip-commercial development and fast food restaurants bias the food choices."
Less space, more Successful
Researchers looked at several factors to determine a city's ranking, including development density of population living near jobs. They also measured the walkability area of the streets.
The researchers also connected lower sprawl with greater economic mobility. For every 10 percent increase in the index score, there is a 4.1 percent probability that a child born to a family in the bottom of the national income distribution reaches the top by age 30.
A low income person living in a very compact area has a much better access to jobs as they cover shorter distance to where the jobs are and has better transportation options.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
The combined cost of housing and transportation is lower for more compact areas. Transportation costs decline faster than the housing prices, with city dwellers having more transportation options, including mass transit, biking and walking which decreases the cost of driving. In Tampa, Fla., the average household spends 56 percent of its budget on housing and transportation, while in Seattle those expenses account for 48 percent of the budget.
Development seems to be moving away from the sprawl that last boomed with the housing market in 2006. Home creators are now more focused to build a Market Place than a place for dwelling.
