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"Challenges to Open Space Planning"

As the cities grow, there are many challenges to create open space planning as the land price became so unbearable which leads greed to the people in low-income countries and cause a serious impact on city itself. The low mentality of people remains strong when it comes "Greed" and biased policy from the government official itself.  The concept of defining the Land in between rich and poor plays a important role in Nepal as being populist politics which lead the by-laws and rules to be drowned for their beneficial use. The "Unfair" policies, lack of development plans and lack of growth controlling mechanisms lead the failure of addressing to preserve the open space in the developing cities and in Nepal, this often happens as the government is so poor to address the long term plan for overall development of rural and urban areas with the process and procedures of development rights in the Country especially for the provision of good infrastructure facilities  a

Key Environmental Infrastructure Issues in Land Use Planning

There are three main keys environmental infrastructure issues in Land use planning which can be described below: 1. Provision of adequate and Safe Environmental Infrastructure for the growing urban population 2. Access to Environmental Infrastructure for the Urban Poor 3. Finance and Institutional Capacity to install and Manage the required levels of Environmental Infrastructure. 1. Provision of adequate and Safe Environmental Infrastructure for the growing urban population Rapid urbanization has brought with it a substantial increase in water consumption, sewage wastes and solid waste generation. The traditional approach of "Disposal" rather than "Treatment and Reuse" of water and solid waste has created serious environmental issues. The uncontrolled and unscientific dumping of sewage wastes has greatly increased the potential hazard to human health through contamination of surface and ground water. Lack of solid waste disposal systems has caused unhealt