The story behind sustainability development

The idea of sustainability development has been proposing for many years. It has become a goal for building construction and city development. The idea of sustainability contains three aspects environmental, economic and social. In order to achieve a healthy sustainable development, all three aspects should be considered. In terms of city development, the common resistance would be coming from the social aspect.

China as a developing country, there are many cities in china are under developing stages where the environment, economy and living quality are increasing. In order to achieve those qualities, a lot of lands is needed. Some of the lands would occupy which means that the building on it would have to be removed in many cases. During the removal of the building, the process would include eviction the people living in the building, reallocated them, provide compensations and destruction of the building. In the example of the Olympic stadiums in Beijing 2008, issues occurred on the evacuation and reallocation of the citizens. The ‘Nail houses’ which refers to people refusing to vacate properties under a state- ordered eviction and demolition (Domain 2017). The main reasons for refusing to move would be gain high compensation from the government to “ensure their own survival in an increasingly unequal society” (Domain 2017). However, the government often uses ineffective ‘strategies’ such as harassment and violence to resolve these type of issues which often worsen the situation.

In my opinion, form a society point of view, the social aspect of the city is not up to standard or not ready to achieve similar advancement of economic and environment. Both government and communities cannot handle the issue on the same mature level which results in conflicts during the negotiation process. This would also be a large issue for sustainability development, therefore, it is important to increase the quality of social aspect through media and education. Also, the desire for a larger amount of compensation also indicated some issues on economic aspect. In other to achieve sustainable development or sustainability, the economic issues also need to be evaluated by the government before development.

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