Sometimes, it is an inevitable consequence of economic progress, such as in industrialization.
Cary Tamarkin, who is putting up a residential building next door, has watched the progress, such as it is.
Social problems resulted, but so did signs of economic progress such as road work and public buildings.
This will involve rethinking the objective of economic policymaking to bring in non-monetary measures of progress, such as wellbeing, and to take account of resource constraints.
The Tory years saw real progress, such as Virginia Bottomley's imaginative scheme to designate some regional museum collections as of national importance.
Olisa said the force had made progress, such as on stop and search, but overall on race it was too slow, too "evolutionary".
But colonialism destroyed or strangled possibilities and potential for progress, such as Mughal Emperor Akbar's "sul-e-kul" or "universal good" which underpinned his governance.
This sustained effort from supporters has delivered real progress such as the £30 cap on away ticket prices in the Premier League.
The areas where the government has made progress, such as standardised packaging for cigarettes and antimicrobial resistance, show what could have been done.
Mr Osborne admitted that his economic plan is "taking longer than anyone hoped" but insisted that Britain had made real progress, such as creating 2m private sector jobs.
There are also, however, a growing middle class of Ugandans and visible signs of urban progress, such as good housing around the outskirts of towns.
