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Land-use planning is multi-faceted and complex whether designing a new city from its start or adapting a municipality for expansion to accommodate an increasing population. It becomes more complex to plan the rehabilitation/redevelopment for a high population city to redress the increasing population problem when a government is not providing the basic needs (e.g., clean water, sanitation, proper shelter) for inhabitants of unplanned shantytowns or slums bordering a city that a municipality allowed to grow to densely populated areas. The likely happened because the shantytown/slum population provided cheap labor for development projects. Land-use planning for the new capitol city Brasilia, as described in Chap. 1, is an example of thorough, successful venture that planned for accommodating natural population growth and in-migration from other states in the country. The starting point in any project of land-use and city planning has to begin with siting in the area being assessed for development.
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Siegel, F.R. (2019). Foundations for a Land-Use Planning Project Determine Sustainability. In: Cities and Mega-Cities. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93166-1_2
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