"Urban sprawl a serious threat to Dominicans, experts say"

LOL... Does stupidity never end in the DR.

I am sure even Dominicans can name 20 other issues that are more of a threat.

Stop the transparent pathological corruption.

urban sprawl is not correct, urban blight is correct.

This is a very serious subject and one that needs much thought ,The problem is that the cities in the world are becoming bigger as the peasant population , who can not find work in the more mechanised and less labour intensive rural sectors come to the city looking for work ,In some countries , such as in the DR , refugees come also to the cities looking for work : all these people are desperately poor . There are probably more than 4.5 million people now in Santo Domingo with many newcomers living in vulnerable sites .la Romana is experiencing the same percentage growth but on a smaller scale ,
I do not know what can be done in the short term but I am sure there needs to be birth controls put into place for a long term solution ...the country is too small and too poor to have a population growth at the current level for much longer and there are simply no solutions to deal with the problems of natural disasters on the poor people who make the urban prawl.

There are no jobs, no matter where the people go.
Thanks to the failed programs of the failed governments of the last 20 years.

What's not correct is women churning out babies like there is no tomorrow.

Need for space is understandable, total absence of family planning and general demographics isn't justifiable.

I like the Chinese system: "planify" yourself, or else..

13. Doctor murdered near Botanical Gardens
Dr Sergio Rafael Rojas Soriano, who had gone out early for his morning run outside the Santo Domingo Botanical Gardens, and near the back entrance to the Pedro Henriquez Urena University has been murdered. According to reports, four men on two motorcycles are suspects in the murder. Witnesses have identified the murderers. The forensic study said he died of two bullet wounds. The 52-year old physician who worked at the UCE Medical Center had four children, of which the two eldest were traveling in the US with their mother.
The reasons for the murder are unknown, but robbery is not suspected because his BlackBerry, UASD graduate ring, watch, wallet and ID documents were not taken.

more murders in the dr then in mexico

Written by: danny00, 4 Aug 2010 3:46 PM
From: United States

more murders in the dr then in mexico"


Prove it.

Mexico’s 2010 Murder Toll Surpasses 2,000

MEXICO CITY – The nearly 50 murders committed on the final day of a long holiday weekend brought to 2,049 the number of drug-related homicides in Mexico just 74 days into 2010, capital daily El Universal said Tuesday.

In 2006, by comparison, gangland murders did not breach the 2,000 threshold until late November."

SOURCE
Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)
DEFINITION
Total recorded intentional homicides, completed. Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
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Crime Statistics > Murders (per capita) (most recent) by country
VIEW DATA: Totals Per capita
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Rank Countries Amount
# 1 Colombia: 0.617847 per 1,000 people
# 2 South Africa: 0.496008 per 1,000 people
# 3 Jamaica: 0.324196 per 1,000 people
# 4 Venezuela: 0.316138 per 1,000 people
# 5 Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people
# 6 Mexico: 0.130213 per 1,000 people
# 7 Estonia: 0.107277 per 1,000 people
# 8 Latvia: 0.10393 per 1,000 people
# 9 Lithuania: 0.102863 per 1,000 people
# 10 Belarus: 0.0983495 per 1,000 people

Sprawl causes prowl..

We are not going to have any minuses when superior intelligences are debating a serious topic

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CEO
ELITE PLUSES BRIGADE

danny00, we just removed the minus assigned to your comment although we think you are wrong

"Urban sprawl is a serious threat" is a euphemism of government overlooking its responsibility to control urban development by accepting payoffs.

A better policy is to build High. Urban planning needs to concentrate more and more population on a vertical plane. Horizontal development serves to create the problem at hand. But this process of people moving from the country or rural sectors into the outskirts of major urban areas has been going on for many decades. Population movement takes place without enough economic development to keep pace with the large increase, thus shanty towns proliferate at unsustainable rates. This process was control by the Trujillo Dictatorship but gained enormous momentum after his assassination and the continuation of the population explosion of the 1960s-1980s. With a large flow of Haitian migrants, this trend has put greater pressure on the inadequate infrastructure and the rise of shanty towns and dilapidated constructions we see at the margins, but also surprisingly more central locales.

A better Headline would have been: "Urban sprawl a serious threat, experts say"; the dangers of urban sprawl are not exclusive to the Dominican Republic.