Some people think that the best way to reduce the time spent in travelling to work is to replace parks and gardens close to the city center with building apartments for commuters, but others disagree. Discuss both views and give your own opinion

In recent years, many people argue that there should be a replacement of parks and gardens with residential apartments to solve the time-commuting issue, while others have an outrageously opposite statement. From my perspective, I firmly disagree with this notion although it offers some benefits.

On the one hand, citizens can advocate the view of constructing inhabiting areas in the place of parklands and botanical plots as it will create more places for residents to live. In particular, it is likely to tackle the problem in terms of the shortage of inhabitable zones near their offices or the center of the city. Having more flats also helps people not spend almost all of their money on extravagant buildings located centrally. Moreover, this idea seems to reduce the situation of traveling a long distance which occasionally leads to being late for work.

On the other hand, I firmly believe that maintaining parks and gardens will bring long-term advantages. Firstly, the appearance of these green places plays an important role in improving the beauty of a metropolis's landscape. In addition, parks and gardens are known as the locations for people to spend their leisure time for outdoor activities, especially dwellers in urban areas who seem not to have much time doing exercise. Lastly, parks and gardens including numerous verdant trees and plants are known as the lungs of a city. They are supportive of not only purifying the ambiance but also decreasing several environmental concerns. To cite an example, in Singapore, such places as parks are situated in many areas throughout the downtown, on two sides of main ways. That is the reason for the name 'green modern nation' of Singapore.

In conclusion, it may assist employees in some aspects, but in the enduring development of the urban site, more and more eco places should be erected and enhanced. As a result, the government can build residential apartments underground as Singapore has been carrying out.