A planning expert in Wales is warning that many cities are endanger of pushing families out to the suburbs by focusing solely on high-density development.
"We're turning into a kind of 'apartment city'," said Professor John Punter, of Cardiff University and director of Design Commission Wales.
"In effect, what is happening to our housing market is it is becoming all apartments...It does not cater for large sections of the community. Most apartments are one- and two-bedroom, so they are good for couples and people co-habiting and things like that.
"But as soon as people have children, they'd have to move out. And where would they go? Where would the new housing be?"
"He called for a "more balanced allocation" of land for housing as a predominance of building on brownfield sites "almost invariably means apartments". "
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