The best way to provide enough homes in large cities is to build tall apartment blocks. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

As adequate access to housing in large cities has become a serious problem recently, it is argued that the best approach to address this issue is to build tall apartment blocks. In my opinion, despite the advantages 1it offers in relievingit brings to relieve the housing problem, it is not the best solution considering its 2adverse effects on urban infrastructureside effects to the city infrastructures and potential safety risks.

Arguments in favor of such a proposal hold that with an increasing number of people seeking to dwell in cities nowadays, the 3traditional housing layoutoriginal building pattern cannot accommodate more residents. Tall apartment blocks, in contrast, have the capability of offering far more homes than the 4traditional low-rise buildingsformer buildings on the same footprint of land. In this way, as advocates argue, 5city residents can be housed at a higher densitycity residents' housing can be arranged in a higher density, thereby 6alleviating the housing shortagesolving the problem of housing shortage.

However, what this plan overlooks 7is the strain on city infrastructure and the potential safety risksare the consequences for city infrastructures and potential security threats that come with it. If far more people were to be accommodated in a small urban area, 8the demand for transportation, water, and other utilitiesthe need for traffic, water and other public resources would surge to a destructive level that 9no existing infrastructure can withstandno existing infrastructures can endure, leading to an overall breakdown 10ofto the city's public services. For example, when more people live downtown, the everyday traffic will be chaotic with a massive number of cars jammed on the roads, not to mention the substantial demand for electricity that may exhaust power plants. Moreover, having too many tall apartment blocks also means significantly greater pressure 11onto the soil. Once the 12groundbackground fails to hold that much weight, the buildings may threaten to collapse, causing unimaginable casualties.

In conclusion, despite the increasingly concerning housing problem in reality, building tall apartment blocks is in no way the best solution to adopt, because we cannot overlook the excessive burden on city infrastructures and the potential damages to people's lives that will come along.