Sprawl trilogy

We are as human in the 21st century enjoy significant advancement in technology and culture compare to the last century. One of our newest exploitation is the venturing into artificial intelligence, also known as AI. From the Siri on IPhone to the Cortana of window phone, we are toying with the concept of putting AI into our daily interaction. It's an exciting idea. But little known to us, the idea of AI has been around for a long time. It exists in movies, video games, books, and magazines. One of the most notable science fiction book about AI is the Neuromancer. The book tells us the story about the struggle between two AIs, the Neuromancer and the Wintermute, and the antagonist, Case, who a human got caught in the middle. We will exam the reasons and causes of how and why the struggle between those two AIs unfold and our questions of AI ability to act on its own with human ethic and compassion. From the science fiction novel "Neuromancer" by William Gibson in 1984, the author digitalized the world in his book and told the story by the third point of view using Henry Dorsett Case. The case, a console cowboy, was able to jack into cyberspace using a port in his head. This is really the same as a hacker in the Internet world today. Apparently, Case lost his ability to hack into cyberspace after he made a mistake to his client. Also, this was the time of Wintermute, an AI system built by the Tessier-Ashpool company, started to manipulate him in its grand plan for the purpose…

Property speculators are those who invest in different kinds of properties such as residential properties, offices, shopping malls and so on. They buy the property at a low price but sell it at a high price and the difference between two prices is their profit. This essay will focus on only one type of speculators – property developers and their role in urban change. Property developers who buy a piece of land and build offices or housings and then sell to the public to gain profit. Urban…

Urban sprawl is an inattentive issue that continues to harm the future of the world, unless the problem is addressed. The concept of urban sprawl is the “uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions” (“Urban Sprawl”). Across the globe, there has been urban sprawl in major cities, without consideration of future consequences. As society focal point is on celebrities and fashion, the focus on the destruction of the environment is not being acknowledged. The sprawl leaves…

Throughout the changes given in the period of 1961-2011, Suburbanization is considered the main reason for the expansion of Toronto. Firstly, changes in transportation played a vital role for the expansion and creation of the majority of cities. Behan states that new technology for transportation was a key factor to suburb sprawl. In addition, Fyfe argues that the increment of vehicles and the development of highways allow variations in the distributions of communities. For instance, in the…

Compact cities can prevent many problems that urban sprawl brings to cities. The United States, unlike the UK or Japan, has encouraged urban sprawl with its policies based on the free market capitalism. As a result, in American cities, as suburbanization accerelates, economic segregation has also been expanded and thus, many economic and social inequality issues have been emerged. In contrast to a compact city, which is highly dense and mixed-use, urban sprawl is explained as a low-density land…

The Problems With Urban Sprawl Urban sprawl, the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas, has slowed down by nine percent since the 1990’s (Borenstein). Urban sprawl was steadily increasing starting in 1920 due to new street construction and it peaked in 1994. Despite the belief that urban sprawl is the result of a healthy economic and social process, urban sprawl needs to be restricted and eventually stopped. Urban sprawl is rapidly expanding, destroying wildlife, and causing a rise in…

One aspect of urban redevelopment that gained a little bit of steam was revitalizing under-utilized brownfield sites that are located in blighted, core, and urban areas. Brownfields are areas where once commercial and industrial lands contaminated the land there, whereas today the land is vacant and undeveloped due to that problem. In recent years, “brownfield redevelopment has emerged as a sustainable land use strategy and one of several ways to address urban sprawl and promote economic…

The close of WWII created the phenomon of sprawl in the United States. Urban sprawl existed long before this time but the U.S. took this idea and ran with it. Social needs and economic policies ramped up the spread of domestic sprawl. There are volumes of research that link urban sprawl with increased vehicle travel, material use, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. Although there is a considerable amount of empirical data that coorelates these increases from an urban sprawl…

situation and those advocating to prevent the negative impacts that may result. ‘Urban sprawl’ is such an issue, defined as the ‘expanding of a population from an urban community towards rural areas surrounding the community.’ This expansion is driven by the need to accommodate a city’s growing population and also for financial gains. The issue of urban sprawl has various detrimental impacts that has affected us in environmental, economical, and even health-related ways. How does urban sprawl…

With rising land prices there are less green spaces in the city even with restrictive laws in place. Tehran was once filled with gardens, but urbanization destroyed them. Courtyards used to employ most of the green space in the city. However, when the new apartments were being constructed they were not designed to have any green spaces. Urban sprawl breaks up the relationship between humans and the environment. Sprawl causes an increase in city commuting time. In 1980 Tehran’s government was…