Ielts essay samples band 9

"City Planners' new designs include setting up schools, markets, and commercial 
places (offices) in different areas of the city. Do you think it will help the city 
dwellers?" 
Model Answer: 
Cities all around the world are similar in terms of the cosmopolitan hum-bum, the 
abundant machinery, and the constant reshaping of landscapes. Planners, in recent times, 
have started setting up and relocating common places of public gathering, e.g. schools, 
shopping malls, and offices, out of the inner-city spheres for cascading the citizens over 
a wider and uncongested territory. I believe this, despite some inconvenience, is 
ultimately beneficial for city dwellers. 
Traffic, of humans and automobiles alike, haunt us in an otherwise unnatural urbanity, 
day and night. Cities, ailing of congestion, are hard up for air. We venture out every day, 
in the city streets, schools, offices, stores amidst millions others, on the prowl for 
sustenance, prosperity and indulgence. So we bump along, with or without harmony, 
like workers do in a termite colony, and that’s ok! But the problems rather are the clogs 
that halt our lives, in office going traffic and school going ques. But urban socio-
economic does not allow us to stall, yet stall we must. This paradox is born of the 
centripetal convergence of establishments in cities and will remain until and unless cities 
are decentralized. 
Some recoil from the prospects of relocation of city establishments looking closed-
mindedly at only the geographical distance. But reality moves over space that must be 
measured in respect to travel time also. Due to relocation of schools, shops, and so on, 
we may have to travel further, but, thanks to the evolution of modern transports, for 
shorter periods of time. Hence, relegation of places of communion to more strategically 
poised vicinities actually reduces the time-distance that the modern man is more 
concerned about. 
No development comes without compensation, and if sacrifice we must – to see better 
days, then accept we should – the extra mile that we have to stride on, for becoming a 
faster and more agile citizenry.

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16.You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Give reasons for your answers and 
include any relevant examples from your experience. Write at least 250 words. 
You have been asked to write about the following topic: