The fourth of the green party's six main guiding principles states, "The essence of decentralization also contains an element of population dispersal from large towns, one of the aims being to re-establish a balance between the rural and urban communities."[153] However there is some confusion as to what is deduced from this principle for one of the party's policies restricts development to places within areas already built up, "To hold back all new developments on agricultural land or other land not at present within the confines of an urban (including village) area."[154]

"When the cities can no longer provide jobs and food gets increasingly expensive, the cities will dwindle to nothing."