In an emerging urban form of cities, traditional core is often found to be declining in terms of quality of life – as opposed to new communities in the outlying areas. Discuss growth management strategies and instruments by which you can prevent this decline?

Growth management, by contrast, seeks to preserve public goods, improve social equity and minimize adverse impacts of development while still accommodating new housing and economic growth. 

Such programs often involve a package of tools such as zoning, comprehensive plans, subdivision regulations, development fees and exaction, and infrastructure investments and are sometimes described as growth controls, growth management strategies, or sustainable development. 

Despite these efforts' increasing popularity, some observers are concerned that such efforts adversely affect land and housing markets and lead to problems of housing affordability which will directly affect the traditional core to be in declining in terms of quality of life as opposed to new communities in the outlying areas. 

The focus of this work is to determine appropriate strategies that can help to achieve a greater degree of community sustainability. One construct for community sustainability is the three “E’s” – Environment, Equity, and Economics. 

All three must work together to create a truly sustainable community, e.g., a job is an important part of quality of life, and further, access to Employment by all members of the community is important.

The growth management strategies by which we can prevent this decline in traditional core are enlisted below:

1. Development

A more common purpose is to achieve a balance between the amount of growth and the ability to provide the transportation, energy, water and waste disposal, public safety, education, public health, and other services needed by human populations. Development can be metered out so that a community can maintain its ability to provide adequate services and to avoid some of the negative effects of boom and bust development cycles which can strain a community’s ability to just absorb the sheer amount of change. 

2. Growth externalizes

Growth externalizes is directly linked with transportation and urban form. Due to technological innovation, the central cities which has its core area, people began to shifting in peripheral locations. As we see in the Peter.o. Muller article , when the railway corridor was developed in US, the people who are living in traditional core shifted as the shiftment of industries from the core area. As i explained above,- that for community sustainability is the three “E’s” – Environment, Equity, and Economics. All three must work together to create a truly sustainable community, if these don’t work together, there are such affect which will destroy the traditional core.

3. Equality in the quality of life 

Enrique Penalosa also focused on equality in the quality of life, and this clearly defines if there is a provision of equity on basic services and amenities to poor citizens then the central cities with traditional settlement can be preserved. 

The main urban growth management strategies to control the city from declining is that, there should be the provision of equal access and physical infrastructure development. To create an employment, with services and facilities needed in that society- there should be an important tool that- local governments have to direct growth is their expenditures for capital improvements, e.g., streets, parks, and schools. Linking those expenditures to the vision created in a comprehensive or area plan can be a powerful motivator for private investment consistent with the vision to preserve the traditional core with its historical identities.

References:

Why cities must build equality: Enrique Penalosa

Transportation and urban form (stages in the spatial evolution of the American metropolis): Peter.o.Muller

American Journal