Land use involves the human modification of natural environments into built environments like fields, pastures, and settlements. This can have several consequences including increased energy consumption, loss of soil and habitats, species extinction, loss of agricultural land, and increased settlement and traffic areas, resulting in less biodiversity. Specifically, buildings, roads, mines, and storage areas directly lead to soil and habitat loss as well as lost nesting sites, which are primary causes of species extinction. Economically, land use causes declining relative population densities, higher infrastructure costs, longer supply routes, and loss of agricultural land. Socio-economic changes, settlement structure concepts, and public funding support more area-consuming designs and complex transportation forms. Countermeasures include limiting