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• housing


  structures or building developed to shelter people from the elements
• example of traditional housing

  igloos built by the Inuit in Canada, farmhouses in the prairie lands of the United States
• example of temporary housing


  camping settlements built by nomadic tribes and relief shelters in disaster-hit areas
• formal housing

  • built by government
  • legal right to occupy land
  • access to basic services
  • high-quality building materials
• informal housing

  • self-built squatter settlements
  • no legal right to occupy land
  • lack of access to basic services
  • poor-quality building materials
• formal housing location

  • desirable land
  • near greenery and amenities
  • with quality infrastructure
  • away from pollution
• informal housing location

  • unwanted land-use
  • neglected
  • lack of infrastructure development
• land-use planning

  • to shape the layout of cities and enable various types of developments
• use of natural resources

  • need to be extracted and used for electricity, food, water for sanitation, space to dispose waste, open spaces for recreation
• pollution

  • introduction of substances that do not belong in the environment, which in great enough concentration, can have harmful effects on plants, animal and humans