Conventional public low-income housing programs (like many seen throughout the Caribbean) tend to use a single uniform (city-wide) urbanization standard regardless of the housing type and cost – elevating development costs and increasing the need for subsidies, maintenance of public spaces and infrastructure.
This difference in choice between Ethiopians and Nigerians could be a function of geographical variation in the level of urbanization, living standard, and climate and socioeconomic and cultural factors [ 13].
Urbanization at high standards, fully completed, tends to be extremely unaffordable and impractical for most cities.
With increasing urbanization and living standards of people in India, there is certainty that there will be a substantial increase in human activities such as transportation infrastructure development, and associated rise in energy demand.
Egypt is facing increasing water needs, demanded by a rapidly growing population, by increased urbanization, by higher standards of living and by an agricultural policy that emphasis expanded production in order to feed the growing population.
Rocklöv also points out that the study includes only high-income countries where factors such as urbanization and housing standards differ from locations where billions of other people live.
To make it fit with the purpose, the study modifies the household account into six new categories according to urbanization and living standard level, by generating the data of both income and expenditure from Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey dataset (National Institute of Statistics 2009).
Due to fast urbanization and increasing living standards, the environmental sustainability of our global society becomes more and more questionable.
Also changing are expectations of what government-supported standards for urbanization and low-income housing can and should be – and how it is made available.
