In his movie, Chinatown, Robert Towne highlights a challenging aspect of planning, common in most urban areas in modern times. The policy makers or personnel, who are to implement or come up with strategies of implementing plans for the town, leave the town in a deplorable state than they found it. In the movie, the first challenge faced by the town dwellers is the water crisis. Water, being an essential aspect of life, is controlled by politically connected individuals in the town. Only a small portion of the town residents is able to access clean water while the majority has to find an alternative. Similarly, the personnel directly involved in the supply of this commodity have their own vested interests, hence, they direct the resource wherever they want, mostly in their farmlands. Efficient and effective urban planning call for transparency in the supply of essential services such as clean water. Every household is entitled to clean and safe drinking water to enhance quality of life. However, in the case of Chinatown, this is not the case. It is apparent that the planners in Chinatown are not up to the task of balancing between their personal needs and the expansion needs of the town. This scenario reflects what happened in the US in 1930s. Wilson, in his work From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos shows, that during this time, the population of urban poor was high. This led to the creation of ghettos (8). Also, Wilson (9) illustrates the black communities were poor as a result of leadership and other social welfare related segregation. Hence, common challenges such as race and unequal opportunities created by the leadership and the majority populace fixed inequality for some races in urban areas (9). In the case of Chinatown, the development, expansion and growth of the town are the residents sole responsibility. However, the political class has failed to give a clear line of direction in terms of community involvement. The suburb population leaves after investing heavily in their farmlands. Moreover, the population which is left behind is engulfed in abject poverty whereas the town has more resources which go un-utilized. These assertions make the Chinatown remain stagnated without growth prospects. In his works, Wilson (124) illustrates that the extent in which the population of a given neighborhood maintains an effective social control and effects their common goal is by social organization. Through this aspect, the community is able to achieve their collective objectives. In such endeavors, people develop interdependence of social networks, get strengthened, achieve some degree of personal responsibility and voluntarily participate in formal and informal organization of their choice (Wilson 130). Through these participations, they are able to contribute to the growth and development of their place of residence. On the contrary, the planning of Chinatown did not involve the population. Besides, the idea of incorporating politics also contributed to the poor planning decisions the town made. The politicians influenced how the resources were to be used, and even controlled their use in order to gain a political mileage. The political decisions had a negative impact on the proper planning of Chi