Real Estate Land

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In the United States, the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) does the survey and identification of land. The PLSS was created under the Land Ordinance of 1785. The system is still used partly in most states but several states have adopted new methods and regulations for land survey.

In the fast few decades, urbanization in the developed and developing countries has brought a significant change in the psychology and lifestyles of the people. The need for more and more real estate land has been continuously on the increase. Over time, the rural population has been steadily shifting to cities. More and more land has been required to provide housing and other commercial facilities to such people. Cities have been expanding at alarmingly faster rates. Rural lands have been consumed by the ever-growing expansions of modern cities. Many researchers consider this suburbanization as the emerging pattern of modern civilization. A survey reveals that over two third of human population, which could be about 6 billion people, would be living in cities by 2050.

The urban sprawl has ignited the fire of large-scale land development. The National Resources Inventory estimated that nearly 8,900 square kilometers or 2.2 million acres of land was developed in the 10-year period between 1992 and 2002. The 2000 Census declares about 2.6% of the land area in the United States as urban. The census further reveals that the 37 urbanized areas with more than a million population account for 0.8% of the nation’s land. Several low-density urbanized areas had turned over dense in the past few decades in the U.S. The Census Bureau data shows that the Los Angeles urban area remained the densest in the country at 7,068 persons per square mile, with San Francisco at 6,127 and New York at 5,309 persons per square mile, were second and third densest.

Urbanization has brought its own hazards. Dependency on agriculture has declined, leading to lesser food production. New townships have consumed agricultural lands. Traditional agricultural labor has migrated to cities. In several developing countries, unplanned city developments have resulted in suburban expansion without proper infrastructure. Public services like public transport, provision of water, sewerage, and electricity services, etc. have become more expensive. Air and water pollution risks have increased. Risks of interracial tensions are higher when people of different ethnicity live together.

However, some researchers argue that many households in developed and developing countries have shown a marked preference for the urban-suburban lifestyle. The reasons cited are better schools, wider shopping alternatives, lesser crime and easier commuting to work. The demand for real estate land is likely to intensify more in the coming years.