… areas also lose their micro-climate functions and thus lose the capacity to keep urban areas cool during the summer. What’s more, soil sealing destroys natural soil … the food supply, forage, energy crops and renewable resources. Economic, social and urban development effects The steady march of overdevelopment is also bad for the … populations are declining for demographic reasons, it is also crucial that, through urban redevelopment programs, buildings that are no longer needed be taken off the …