(Ebook) Urban Sprawl Negative Impact: Enkomi Return Phase by Ph.D. candidate KAMYAR FULADLU

(Ebook) Urban Sprawl Negative Impact: Enkomi Return Phase by Ph.D. candidate KAMYAR FULADLU

Most of the cities around the world are dealing with different kinds of the problems
such as social, environmental, economic and others. However, for many years,
urban planners have attempted to find solutions that fit within the context and have
put them into practice in order to shape the form of a city accordingly. One of the
controversial problems which most of the developing and developed countries deal
with it is urban sprawl, which affects everything and everyone in different scales.
For last three decades, even in case of T.R.N. Cyprus, urban sprawl has become
inevitable; urban sprawl is recognizable, sprawl construction becomes a profitable
business for construction, real-estate, and others involved in this business.
Unfortunately, some communities to realize their vision welcomed to urban sprawl
construction and enthusiastically embrace it with open arm, such communities
sacrifice sociability opportunity and vibrant neighborhood to those single-use towns
which is one of the main characteristics is social exclusion and psychological
problems, fundamentally one of the key factors can be found in lack of public
awareness especially for who prefer to live in sprawl town. In T.R.N. Cyprus urban
sprawl didn’t promote auto-dependency. Despite urban sprawl in T.R.N. Cyprus
have many repercussions, one of the important impacts which are considered in this
articles are psychological impact of urban sprawl, also this article attempt to divide
urban sprawl leaving condition into three phases, and promote the contemplate
phase which makes sprawl inhabitants think and return to inner-city neighborhood
again.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2019), 3(1), 44-51.
https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2018.4709