This document discusses ribbon development and its disadvantages. Ribbon development refers to linear development along major roads where buildings like houses, shops, and factories extend in a long strip alongside the main road. Some key disadvantages of ribbon development mentioned include increased costs for utilities, lack of community and social life, difficult future expansion, impacts from traffic like noise and pollution, wastage of interior land, safety issues from mixing local and through traffic, and reduced road capacity and efficiency. The document also notes the complex challenges involved in solving the problem of ribbon development which requires coordinated efforts from various stakeholders.