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?

1As adequate accessAs the 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 2advantages it offers in relievingadvantages it brings to relieve the housing problem, it is not the best solution considering its 3negative impacts on urban infrastructureside effects to the city infrastructures and potential safety risks.

4Arguments in favor of such a proposal holdArguments in favor of such proposal holds that with an increasing 5number of peoplenumber people seeking to dwell in cities nowadays, the 6traditional low-density housing modeloriginal building pattern cannot accommodate more residents. Tall apartment blocks, in contrast, 7havehas the capability of offering far more homes than the 8traditional low-rise buildingsformer buildings, 9on the same footprint of landgiven the same acres of land. In this way, as 10advocatesadvocators argue, city residents' housing can be arranged in a higher density, thereby solving the problem of 11housing shortageshome insufficiency.

However, what this plan overlooks are the 12consequences for city infrastructureconsequences to the city infrastructures and potential security threats that come with it. 13If far more people were to be accommodated in a small urban area, the 14demand for transportneed for traffic, water and other public resources would surge to a destructive level that no existing infrastructures can endure, leading to 15an overall breakdown in the city'sa overall break to city's public services. For example, when more people 16live downtownlive in 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 17greater pressure on the groundlarger pressure to the soil. 18If the underlying ground failsOnce the background 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 20adopttake, because we cannot overlook the excessive burden on city infrastructures and the potential 21risks to people's livesdamages to people's life that will come along once put into practice.