Some people think that it is more important to plant more trees in open areas in towns and cities than provide more housing. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
题目大意
有人认为在城镇和城市中种植更多的树比建造更多的房屋更重要。你是同意还是反对？
写作思路解析
➡️在城市规划上，绿化和住房的取舍一直是热点话题。绿色植物对于城镇环境和居民健康的重要性是不言而喻的，而住房对于不断飙升的人口也是极其重要的，所以对于政府来说，在这两者间寻求平衡是明智的措施。
关键词
more important to plant more trees 种植树木更重要
in towns and cities 在城镇
than provide more housing 比提供更多住房
提纲梳理见下
写作示范
It is argued that more urban land should be distributed to vegetation than houses in towns and cities. I, personally, hold the view that a balance between the greenery and houses should be kept for the city planning.
The merits of preserving more urban areas for greenery can be manifold. First and foremost, the green belt plays a crucial role in ensuring consistent supply of fresh air to all the urban inhabitants. Via the photosynthesis, most green leafy plants help convert the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into fresh oxygen that the life of human and many other fauna relies on. Without sufficient plants grown in cities, hardly can the healthy provision of oxygen be guaranteed, let alone trees’ other eco-friendly effects to the city, including filtering some detrimental gases or vehicle emission in the air, and adjusting the urban temperature and humidity, to name just a few. Moreover, the scale of green area is now considered as a critical standard to measure a city’s life quality and progress made in its civilisation. The easy access to nature encourages citizens to organise more outdoor activities which not only can improve the physical well-being, but enhance the family bond as well.
On the other hand, there is no denying fact that the accommodation of continuously growing urban population is still the priority to most city councils globally. The housing issue can be the basic needs for the city dwellers, which directly determines the life quality and happiness index. In the light of this, it is conceivable that some city-planners chose to construct more high-rise blocks of flats with the sacrifice of some urban green. For them, how to meet their citizens’ basic physiological and safety needs, particularly securing a shelter, is unquestionably more straightforward and realistic.
In conclusion, giving too much place of urban housing to vegetation or vice versa is an extreme measure. From my own perspective, an equilibrium between these two demands should be laid more emphasis on by the city-planners.
