Some cities create housing areas by providing taller buildings Others create housing by building houses on a wider area of land What solution is better Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience Wr | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Some cities create housing areas by providing taller buildings. Others create housing by building houses on a wider area of land. What solution is better?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.

Nowadays, with more than half the world's population living in cities, the problem of housing development in urban areas has become more crucial than ever. The authorities of cities around the world now have two main options to tackle this issue: either by building more skyscrapers on the existing urban areas, or by expanding the land size of urban areas and build more houses on the new land. In this essay, I will compare the pros and cons of both of these solutions before giving my own opinion on which one is the better choice.

On the one hand, in terms of cost, it seems clear to me that between the two proposed solutions, the former has more advantages over the latter. In other words, I believe that building taller apartment blocks could save all of us more money than the alternative, which is expanding the land use of the city. Firstly, by having taller skyscrapers, all the major buildings can be closer to one another. That means that everyone can easily walk or cycle to work or to school, instead of having to drive for hours by cars to get from the suburbs to the city center to work every day. This can save a lot of time and money for the urban dwellers.
Secondly, the authorities of the cities can also save a considerable amount of money if they choose the first option. This is also because the first solutions allows more people to live closer to one another, which means the cities' governments do not have to spend massive amount of money acquiring new land, which can be very expensive. It also means that there is no need to build new infrastructure such as roads, bridges, electric cables and lightings, which must be done if the city expands in land use.

On the other hand, when the matters of time and safety are taken into consideration, it is my belief that the second solution may be superior to the the first. To put it another way, it could be argued that by building more private houses over a larger areas, it is actually quicker and safer than building new, taller apartment blocks. The reason for this lie in the fact that it requires a lot of time to build a single skyscraper, whereas we can build many small private houses at the same time and, therefore, finish much more quickly. On top of that, in case of emergency, such as fires, earthquakes, hurricanes or other types of natural disasters, the high-rise skyscrapers could potentially be much more dangerous for its inhabitants than smaller houses. For example, during an earthquake, those who live on the high floors of a skyscrapers can feel much more vibration than those living in a house nearer to the ground. Another example is the fact that in the case of fires, elevators could be shut down and the stairs could be inaccessible because of the fires and the smoke, making it it very difficult to escape to safety if one is stranded on the top floors of a high-rise building.

In conclusion, as discussed above, I am of the opinion that both of the proposed solutions are advantageous in some regards, and disadvantageous in others. Therefore, my own view is that neither of them is completely better than the other, and that cities around the world must consider them carefully before deciding on which way they should follow.

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IELTS Writing Task II - IELTS Academic

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 35, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'worlds'' or 'world's'?
Suggestion: worlds'; world's
Nowadays, with more than half the worlds population living in cities, the proble...
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Line 6, column 146, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
... the second solution may be superior to the the first. To put it another way, it could ...
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Line 6, column 146, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
... the second solution may be superior to the the first. To put it another way, it could ...
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Line 6, column 835, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a skyscraper' or simply 'skyscrapers'?
Suggestion: a skyscraper; skyscrapers
...e, those who live on the high floors of a skyscrapers can feel much more vibration than those...
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Line 6, column 1093, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: it
...ause of the fires and the smoke, making it it very difficult to escape to safety if o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, whereas, for example, in conclusion, such as, in other words, on the other hand, on top of that

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 7.85571142285 229% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 7.30460921844 287% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 44.0 24.0651302605 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 41.998997996 200% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2670.0 1615.20841683 165% => OK
No of words: 575.0 315.596192385 182% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64347826087 5.12529762239 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89685180668 4.20363070211 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53242951409 2.80592935109 90% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 176.041082164 155% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473043478261 0.561755894193 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 837.9 506.74238477 165% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 5.43587174349 239% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 13.0 4.76152304609 273% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 20.2975951904 148% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.0279235492 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.526315789 106.682146367 132% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.2631578947 20.7667163134 146% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.21052631579 7.06120827912 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201498442603 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0634944293819 0.084324248473 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.044102922515 0.0667982634062 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111245096917 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0452998435384 0.056905535591 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 50.2224549098 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.22 12.4159519038 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.1190380762 138% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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Essay evaluations by e-grader

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments