The debate over how to develop the land in communities has been raising in recent years. This is due to the fact that we use more land than we need. People are building more and more in suburbs. This building causes retail and work places to follow and move towards the outer areas of cities. This is referred to as sprawl.
Land development is an important aspect of the building process.
Land development decides what will be built, and where, and how it will affect the physical and economical surroundings. This leaves buildings vacant that become an eyesore and possible environmental risk. Included in that must be how does current land development going to affect past land development and physical surroundings of the future. Suburban sprawl has dominated the United Sates for over the last 50 years. With more and more farmland disappearing for more cookie-cutter housing developments and big box department stores that are being built on a remarkable level.