The God Particle and some other stuff

What was there before the start of time? A question that has puzzled physicists around the world for centuries. In the midst of nothingness, somehow the particles decided to combine with a big explosion to give birth to this universe. Somehow everything just exploded and formed all of this. The universe and everything. It gave a way to life, time, evolution and what not. There was no idea or hypothesis of time before that because, nothing was there. It was just whole lot of nothingness. After big bang time came in view, but isn’t that something too arbitrary. The whole idea of time is illusionary. There is no time. I don’t mean I am running late so I don’t have time. There is no time. There are no numbers in the sky. It’s a human invention. Humans made the whole thing up For their own convenience. In India time zones work on half hour basis. While they work on hour basis all around world. Main difference is not about half hours, But about thousands of years. The major calendars differ by thousands of years. Muslims say its 1434 AH, Hindu calendar says 2068-2069. These are major calendars deferring with each other for hundreds of years. Remember it’s not just some weeks, Its hundreds of years. These are calendars we are talking about. The instruments specially designed to keep track of time. We try to keep track of time but it’s futile, you cannot keep it down. Time is always perceived like a flowing river constant and never ending. But it is like an ocean in a storm too bigger concept to even comprehend or perceived by.

Years after years some of us have always been wondering what this all was about, what is the motive of this life universe and everything. And till now what all they have got is zilch, zero nada. Douglas Adams came a lot closer to answering this question in his creation hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. Where the supreme computer points out that the Answer to the ultimate question of life universe and everything is 42. Even though no one knows what 42 meant. This made a lot of people look into why 42? Why not any other number? So research started going over that. Some people just want to know why all that happen. Here religion came in. it was told It took him splits of a second to create his great colossal desert. Everything changed in those few seconds. If it hadn’t been for those few seconds, it’s difficult to imagine what would have been. Scientists believe that there are more number of galaxies in this universe than the number of sand grains on earth. All of them created in a matter of seconds.

After billions of years, we find people (including ourselves) looking for such few seconds of pure brilliance in our lives. LIFE, which is defined by our qualification, job or how good looking and successful in the above mentioned fields is our spouse. So we have kids with our successful partners and leave them to follow the same path. That’s how the simple cycle of life we are “supposedly” bound to be in, continues.

But the main question is Who is this God person anyway? Why did he create us? Just for the sake of his pleasure or just for the sake of sheer narcissism. If he did this just for the sake of pleasure. Is he toying with us, trying to play us like ‘Sims’? Friedrich Nietzsche during his end wrote, “God is dead, God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Looking at the situations around the world, with all these gender crimes, massacres, Nietzsche’s thought sounds about right.

Sometimes the whole notion of God seems like an escapist phenomenon. It makes people get away with anything. GOD made me this way or This is what god wanted for you, Don’t worry god has a plan for you. A young girl who has been brutally raped by a gang of hoodlums, and then she is left to live on vestiges of any sanity she had got left. Many people will say, ‘God works in mysterious way’. But to be frank if this omnipotent supernatural force can come up with this, if this is the best he/she can muster. Then he/she might be doing a very bad job. Or we might have the basic reasoning for it. There is no god. God didn't rape that girl. If God saw what any of those did that night he didn't seem to mind. He doesn't make the world this way. We do. If this is the best god can do, war, disease, hunger, corruption, destruction, crime and filth. This is not good work. Results alike these don’t belong to the resume of a supreme powerful being. If this is a god, he is at least incompetent and maybe just don’t care.

So who is this “him” exactly? And what was he doing before this big explosion? Maybe he was trying different methods to create this explosion and one day he succeeded, or, maybe it was a method went wrong, a mistake, added a wrong chemical and BANG!!

Personally, I find the mistake theory easier to believe. But, if we do that then what are we doing here? Living a mistake? Suddenly we will find our cycles without wheels.

“IMPOSSIBLE”; “ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND”; “HOW BORED DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO THINK LIKE THAT, LOL”; are some of the reactions a mistake theory believer might get, because you can’t go anywhere without wheels. If we follow this track, we have to make a new set of wheels on our own, which is highly “inconvenient.”

And creation, I’m not so sure this was created. Maybe it's just accumulated, fields affecting fields.

Still, it is very possible, but very hard to digest, especially if we consider the religious ideology. But a talking snake make a lady eat an apple, So we're screwed. Heaven and hell were peddled so priests could rule through seduction and terror, save our souls that we never lost in the first place.

Sometimes It can be observed that religious ideologies can be easily deduced to stop doing things you would enjoy. Religion from exalting life to purging joy as a sin. It’s a padded list of just do’s and don’ts. About 5000 years ago, some people got together to try to figure out how to control people. Because basically they knew people were too stupid to believe everything told to them. It was designed to scare people because fear tends to give other people right to make decision for them. Religion just keeps people from having fun. It’s like a person went up to the priest and said I love sex. The priest thought if this keeps on going he would stop coming here, his supply of charity fund will stop. Then he responds, it is a sin my son. Wait till you are married. Abstinence is the answer. Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder and the then the man said, abstinence also makes my arm grow stronger. Same goes for bathing; actually, bathing was the style until the Middle Ages when the church told us it was sinful to wash away God's dirt, so people were sewn into their underwear in October and they popped out in April. A simple path to goodness needs a supernatural roadmap. Religion is one of the leading cause of human deaths all over the world.

It is very hard to believe because since childhood we have heard, read and seen people talk about it. We accept THE BIG BANG as a FACT. Just like we believe in a lot of other things also. As George Carlin once said, “Tell people an invisible man in the sky created all things, they believe you. Tell them what you've painted is wet, they have to touch it to believe.” Somehow all this believing what have been told, puts us in the Oceania of the world, we just have not figured it out yet, and if somebody even figures that out we outcast them, because their beliefs oppose our chosen reality.

That is what we do in our lives, believe the facts and ignore the possibilities. Just because we hear about it since childhood and read about it in books doesn’t eliminate the possibility of another hypothesis. I am not saying that the big bang is wrong or the facts that exist in the world are not true, all I am saying is that it wasn’t too long ago (compared to life of the universe) that we believed Earth was the center of our galaxy as a fact and it was a crime in religious sects to think otherwise. So the main point that comes here is why just believing what anybody tells, questioning those supposedly facts is what this is all about.

Someone once asked Horst Köhler, if there is a god. Horst Köhler said I advise you to think about how your behavior would change with regard to the answer of the question. If it would not change then we can drop the question, and if it would change, then i can help you at least as far as possible because you have already decided that you need a god.

Why should you not cheat?

Why should you not cheat? There are many mind boggling questions that we face throughout life and one of them can be this. To cheat or not to cheat. Most precisely when you have the chance to cheat. Many people ask this question during slow phases of their relationship. When their significant other is not much giving heed to their needs or requirements.
There is a certain stereotype that surrounds cheaters. It goes something like this: cheaters are terrible monsters who are selfish and only care about themselves.
Here are the reasons why you shouldn't cheat:

1. First of all, you are not a Sleazebag, and you don't want to be one too. Wasn't it simple. Remember when you used to dream about your future self. you never imagined yourself to be a sleazebag, because that's something you always hated. even though sleazebag gets girl most of the times, but you just cant stoop to that level. am i right or not.
2. Its not worth it. Its never worth it. The thing you have with your present partner is far too much sacred and fun to be messing with. Okay i admit its not looking like much fun right now, but its still love isn't it. Remember trust once broken can never be earned back.
3. Its just a phase and it will pass. Just hold on a little bit longer.
4. And do you really wanna go into that dating struggle. Its a jungle out there mate. And i don't know whats your perception of jungle, but i don't think its a fun thing. That's why people use the phrase,'its a jungle out there'. Despite there being billions of people in this world, it’s hard finding people who you can open up to, and completely trust with your heart.
5. Think about how she or he would feel. The person whose faith you will cheat will be broken beyond repair. They trust someone with their life's secret and then that someone break that trust. Maybe they never will be able to trust again. You don't want the burden of that on your conscience or do you?
6. There are pretty good chances that you might loose your friends over this also. I know it doesn't seem possible, but believe me it would happen.
7. Final and most important, how would you feel if your significant other did that to you. If you think deep down in your heart that you are gonna be okay with that, I don't suppose there is a reason for you to stop cheating, but i really think you would be anything but okay.

 Though we all accept that lying cheating etc all happen, but we mostly don't expect them to happen upon us. and there is a reason behind it.

Which fictional character would you rather date?

I have been reading L'assomoir from past some days and one thought that stumbled upon my mind, whenever I was reading about Gervaise was, "Man! I would love to get a piece of that." then this thought made me ponder which fictional character have always been that enticing, which characters have always demanded our love and affection. There has been a time in our lives when we all have been touched by some character and our life feels like their life. We like to pretend our life is like that character; the only difference is that our life is in 3D and comes with no dialogue sheet or screenplay.

So which characters would you like to date, would it be?

1. Jacob Barnes: The bullfight enthusiast, mildly romantic, American reporter living in Paris after being injured in the First World War. In an alternate universe where World War never happened, Jacob would be like James bond, all the women want to be with him, and all the men want to be him. But in this universe World War did happened, and left Jacob mysteriously wounded, hence making him impotent. Like many of his friends who served in the war, he rejects most pre war values and traditions, moral, cultural, literary, and otherwise to lead a new, unencumbered life in Paris that includes plenty of booze and partying. However, he occasionally goes to churches (Roman Catholic) to pray. Jacob from 'The Sun Also Rises' one of many Hemmingway’s mildly autobiographical creation.
2. Lady Ashley Brett: The love interest of Jacob Barnes from the same novel. Beautiful Englishwoman who lives in Paris after serving as a nurse during the war. She fancies herself a modern, independent woman who is the equal of men. She even wears her hair short and often refers to herself as "chap." She leads a very promiscuous life bedding anyone she pleases.
3. Frederic Henry: He is an American, from ‘A Farewell to Arms’, serving as a Lieutenant in the Italian Army. Hemingway leaves no clue as to why Fred was in Italy at the beginning of the war or how long he has been serving. He commands a group of ambulances. He feels as if he has nothing to do with the war. These feelings of detachment are pushed away when Henry falls in love with Catherine and begins to realize the hostile nature of the world. In this way, Henry serves the function of a character that becomes initiated in Hemingway's philosophy of an indifferent universe and man's struggle against it.
4. Catherine Barkley: Catherine Barkley is an English nurse serving at the Italian front. Due to the untimely death of a fiancé previous to the events of this book, Catherine has already been initiated into Hemingway's philosophy, and exemplifies the traits of the Hemingway code hero throughout the novel. She is characterized primarily by her disregard for social conventions as well as an unfaltering devotion to Henry. She is a loving, dedicated woman whose desire and capacity for a redemptive, otherworldly love makes her the inevitable victim of tragedy.
5. Michael Corleone: This wonderful Mario Puzo's creation. Michael is the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone, now many girls would want to be with him, for obvious reasons, good looks, sharp mind, the fact that he belongs to Corleone family and he is nearly faithful too, just keep him away from thunderstorms and I guess you will be fine, if you know what I mean. Michael begins the story as a young man who has just returned from the war to an uncertain future. He does not want to follow his family's footsteps, yet he cannot ignore his feelings of commitment to them or his natural ability to take up the family mantle.
6. Kay Adams: Michael’s wife and quite naive catholic girl. Simple loving, obedient. She strikes the kind of girl you will follow whatever you say, if the reason is good enough.
7. Chander: The male protagonist of Dharamveer Bharti's 'Gunaho ka Devta' one of my favourite characters. Chander was a realist, he knew sacrifice, he knew devotion, he knew pain. For his qualities he was always quoted or denoted as 'Devta' or deity in the book, but his one mistake turns his life and of others related to him upside down and he became 'Gunaho ka Devta' or deity of errors.
8. Sudha: The female counterpart of Chander, the average looking, witty, childish, short tempered sudha. Whose love was not just love it was devotion. The fact that they both don't end up together makes Sudha more interesting, because then the change in her character seen is quite heart warming and tear jerking.
9. Lord Eddard ‘Ned’ stark: the lord of winterfell, brave, middle aged, the new hand of the king. He is a very capable person with lots of responsibilities. He is sort of tierd with life but still convinced that life is meaningful and that responsibility, loyalty and family are important. He will fight against unjust, have a noble heart, and likely to impart his wisdom got during the fight of Westros to you in random saying.
10. Robb stark: the 14 year old bachelor, at his age prime. He is a pretty cool dude who’s loyal to his friends and believes that people “get what’s coming to them.” He is social crusader; he believes in equality for all. At the same time, he never fails to face tough decisions and move forward with his agenda. He wants what he wants and no one’s going to stop him from trying to get it. And to top all this he owns a beautiful direwolf also. The one which have not even seen in Westros from past 200 years.
11. Jon snow: The bastard of Ned stark. Wise, fair, medium built, men of the night, dons the colour black as second skin. He is shy but not cripplingly so. He is stoic and opinionated, but only offers opinion when asked. If you want to date him, sucks for you because he took an unbreakable oath of celibacy.
12. King Jeoffery: if you like Jeoffery, who’s basically King’s Landing’s version of Patrick Bateman, then you are seriously fucked up and maybe you liked torturing small animals as a little kid and now spend your monotonous days trolling Something Awful forums and leaving extremely racist/ sexist comments in the comment sections of YouTube videos. You are also. Sadistic, perverted cruel, and into BDSM. And I guess your favourite book is 'Fifty shades of grey'.
13. Captain Jack Sparrow: Funny, Chronic drunk, Witty and Deceitful. These adjectives are just starting to describe his personality. Jack Sparrow is a pirate but he doesn't attack or hurt the innocent or the weak. Believe it or not, he will go out of his way to help a friend in need. Basically he is an all around good guy. Captain Jack Sparrow is inspiring because the character speaks to our innermost adventurous, independent, creative, daring sides. In the real world, we do not feel we have time to be adventurous, creative and daring. There are sheets to be made, responsibilities to keep, and a quiet, common life to live. Boring!
14. Irene Adler: Beautiful, talented, suave, and intelligent. The only woman who outwitted the great Sherlock Holmes. To Sherlock Holmes she was always The Woman. Some readers see more than meets the eye in Irene Adler of "A Scandal in Bohemia". A native of New Jersey, she could captivate the King of Bohemia so why not a detective? Irene Adler only appears in one of Conan Doyle's dozens of stories, but Watson takes care to point out that she remains a significant character in Holmes's personal history nonetheless.  (The Irene Adler. discussed here is from Arthur Conan Rule universe. not the one of bizarre world where Rachel McAdams play Irene Adler.)
15. Bruce Wayne: The Dark Crusader, billionaire, philanthropist, playboy. Speaks over a dozen languages. Technically, Batman, oops Bruce Wayne doesn’t have any superpowers. He does, however, have unlimited time and financial resources at his disposal. When his parents died, Bruce Wayne became a fitness freak obsessed with appearing normal. He began to live by his own moral code of vigilante justice. Bruce Wayne has the chiselled jaw line and dark features to win over many a villainous (and non-villainous) female.
16. Tony Stark: Tony Stark is an outgoing man who enjoys drinking and gambling, all the while possessing the capacity to become an expert in thermonuclear astrophysics overnight. He is a billionaire industrialist and inventor. Stark is constantly creating new technology and looking for ways to improve it. He is like Marvel’s answer to DC’s Batman.
17. Selina Kyle: Selina Kyle or Catwoman has been taught stealth, athletics, hot-wiring, lock-picking, thieving, acrobatics and the martial arts. She excels at low- and high-tech heists and is the best cat-burglar in Gotham. Catwoman has a good affinity for cats obviously. Additionally, Selina is an effective seductress, a talent she employed to remove herself from treacherous situations.
18. Nina Sayers: A member of a New York City ballet company, she finds herself in the lead role of the company's, more so the director's, new vision of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake." Nina, an innocent girl with a determination. However, the obsession in Black Swan is not directly linked to Nina's desire for celebrity. She doesn't necessarily want to be a dancer but rather is living out a delegated fantasy from her mother. Nina pursues a career and is increasingly haunted by the distortion of fantasy and reality. This character from Aronofsky’s the black swan is so tempting, mainly because of his direction only. Aronofsky has always been a director who gets into his characters' heads. He has always executed with perfect clarity the mental breakdowns involved in whatever obsession his leads find themselves locked to. I can talk literally hours about this movie and Nina, but I guess I have to put this article to an end. And ending it with one of Aronofsky’s character makes me feel content.

Random blurbs

It has been so long since I actually wrote something. I don’t know why, I stopped writing. I used to write a lot. But now I just don’t feel like writing. Scribbling used to be fun for me, while now it looks like a chore. I think it might be because I have been quite happy lately. There have been no conflicts of thoughts inside me. For once I am happy with what I got. And not worried about what will happen.

I have always been quite a boring guy. I have no filter between my brain and my mouth. I just blurt out stupid things. I am no good in sports (of any sort), my signature carom shot: The striker goes across the board missing every possible coin. I feel sufficiently Ninja anytime I can take out the bottom piece of clothing from a stacked pile. I’ll often type a caustic reply to someone and then think, “Eh! Does such latent stupidity deserve such credit? And... Delete reply”. On principle, I never shake hands with a guy who says that he has a lot of time on his hands. I am one of those guys who usually go out in a torn sweatshirt and reduce the resale value of houses in society by 10%. I am that guy in a tense hospital situation who makes an inappropriate joke. I am always that guy. Not because I am an asshole. But because I genuinely don’t think I can say anything to change anything. I would just be more comfortable in a lighter moment. I love wordplay’s and use them so much that others perceive me as retarded. I think I am actually going to start smoking because I am not okay with the idea of someone else’s smoke killing me. 

Considering how lazy I am in the afternoon, u guys should consider yourself lucky that I make all my world domination plans at that time. I grasped Venn diagrams when a hormonal schoolmate explained, “the two circles are breasts, and the common is cleavage.” Mr Venn died that day. Nothing annoys me more than the Facebook orkutiyas adding and re-adding after you have ignored their advances. I think that if you can’t hold your drink, don’t drink. Slurring is not endearing. (In case of physical inability to hold drink, please check arms.) I always wonder how does one even make up their mind to become a proctologist for a career? Or an enema operator? 

I have costophobia, the fear of high prices. Every time I watch Spiderman 3, I have to double-check IMDB to make sure that it didn’t have the same writers as Double Dhamaal. If they had shown me the trailer of my life before I was born, I would have refused to take birth after knowing that it’ll be in 3D. I hope Jesus didn’t seriously die for *my* sins. If he did so, he did it in vain. I pay for my fuckups every day of my life. I’m thinking so far outside the box that I’ve began to question the box’s existence. I get physically uncomfortable when I have un-watched TV shows on my Hard Drive. I want to have a friend called Titiksha so that I can say, “Hey Tits what’s up”. And I don’t understand what’s everyone’s problem with death penalty is. I’m all for death penalty. Might make football bit more interesting. And Someday, just someday, I’ll find out why people use their fingertips to fan themselves. 

I have only a few moods. Flirty. Sarcastic. And sarcastically flirty. Sometimes if I don’t want to meet you on a Sunday, it may mean pure laziness, not dislike. Sleep > Everything Else. I always wonder if you take only a puff of ganja, will you be only pebbled. The voices in my head now have British accents.

That’s the way I have always been. I am shy and I am afraid of new people and I don’t have a clue if you like me. Come say Hi. So that I’ll know there’s nothing to be afraid of.

5 Things You Should Know About People

(Well this is copied from somewhere. I liked it so thought to share.)

1. People want to be loved. Whether it’s by their family, friends or a lover, we just want someone to make us feel safe and important. Otherwise, we’ll feel like we’re broken in some way. We’ll blame ourselves for being alone when everyone else seems to be with someone. We want human touch, we want “I love you”‘s, we want to come home after work to someone we can eat dinner with. We need to feel worth it, we need to feel special, we need a place to go to for Christmas.
2. People want to fuck. This is different than wanting to be loved. The desire to have sex with another person exists in an entirely different part of your brain and people will spend obscene amounts of money to ensure that they have sex with someone. No, I’m not talking about prostitutes (hey girl hey!), I’m talking about your gym membership, your expensive haircut, your new jeans that make your ass look really great. These are all things we do in order to be perceived as desirable. We then go on dates and spend so much money on someone to increase our chances of getting laid. “If I buy you the lobster, you’re letting me do things to you tonight.” These are exchanges that are universally understood. In a way, we’re all whores when it comes to sex. Some people just ask for the cash upfront.
3. People have their own shit to work through. This seems fairly obvious but when you really think about what it actually means, it should flood you with a sense of relief. Your asshole boss is a nightmare but maybe they hate themselves or their mom drinks too much or they haven’t been on a date in five years. Whenever someone comes across as truly difficult, I try to think about what kinds of stuff they’re dealing with. Chances are they’ve been up emotional shit creek without paddle. That makes their acid tongue more bearable.
4. People often hurt themselves the most. This is a difficult and sad concept to grasp. But whether it’s through addictions, dating the same jerk over and over or not realizing that we’re great, we are often the root of our problems. People like to play the blame game and scapegoat their issues on to something else like their childhood and parents. While that’s all very understandable, there must come a point in everyone’s life when we have to take ownership and realize we have the power to change things. It’s like we spend so much time avoiding ourselves and then when we finally acknowledge it, we’re like, “Oh, okay. Now, I know how to fix things!” We’re all fucking crazy. Don’t beat yourself up about it. I know everyone wants to appear well-adjusted but we’re all just silently losing our shit.
5. Secretly we all just want the simple things, which is health, happiness, and love. Tell that to a twenty-something hipster and they’ll be like, “Um, no. I want the new Phillip Lim collection and my own column in Nylon!” And maybe in that moment, they really do want that, but they also would just give it up to be loved and be happy. This might be embarrassing to admit but it seems to be overwhelmingly true. Would you give up all the static for a warm house in the country with your # 1 babe? Maybe not, but as you get older, you will become less fulfilled by the distractions and the noise and the power lunches and the boring conversations and the parties. There’ll be a point when you’re done being surrounded by everybody and just want to have a few somebodies.

By Ryan O'Connell

Is Urban Sprawl the right prescription for Urban growth?

Nowadays people talk about urban sprawl in such a way that probably indicates that it's not s­uch a desirable thing. They refer urban sprawl as a cancer... but is it really a cancer?? Otherwise they would have given it a better name, like, Urban Utopia or something. Maybe just urban living. Or when I was growing up, it was suburbia. Now it's urban sprawl. But is it really a counter-productive thing???

Depending on who you ask, urban sprawl is either the best thing that ever happened to growing cities -- or the downfall of civilization and environment as we know it. Though it has many definitions, urban sprawl is most simply defined as "the spreading out of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land at the periphery". In other words, sprawl happens when people abandon cities in favour of the suburbs.

Joni Mitchell waxed philosophical in her hit song "Big Yellow Taxi" when she sang: "Don't it always seem to go/that you don't know what you've got till it's gone/They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot." To many, these lyrics are exactly what urban sprawl represents -- the desecration of untold hectares of farmland fuelled by capitalist ideals. However, to others, urban sprawl allows families to grab their own piece of the Dream. So who exactly is right? Advocates of sprawl will tell you that sprawl also allows the opportunity to escape crowded cities that often have higher crime rates. The opposition counters that the impact of sprawl is far-reaching, causing serious air pollution, ruining animal habitats and drastically reducing green space, among other issues.

Those opposed to urban sprawl advocate controlling the problem by building high-density urban areas -- in other words, accommodating more people per square km in buildings that grow up, rather than spreading out. This would spare the outlying rural areas from what is often deemed unnecessary development.

Unfortunately, this type of planning doesn't take into account lifestyle preferences. Many people simply don't like the crowds, traffic and confined living quarters that typically characterize urban living.

Also, it's no secret that homes closer to most urban areas are usually more expensive than homes farther out in the suburbs. Simply put, it's easier to own your home out in the suburbs.

Low-density developments do take up space and may increase driving time. However, they have an important argument in their favour: People like them. Low density means more room and a higher standard of living. While every city has apartments available for those who prefer them, many people choose their own detached homes

Not all communities offer a full plate of amenities, but in those new planned communities that do, the occupants can take advantage of a full plate of recreational opportunities without driving long distances to participate in community activities. Homes built on land outside of urban areas are often better valued than homes in cities because the land cost can be significantly lower. Former farmland or vacant land is far less expensive than land in established areas.

Despite widespread anti-sprawl sentiments, urban sprawls have their own benefits. A reduced housing cost in sprawls is believed to have provided minorities and recent immigrants better housing opportunities.

In addition, better schools in terms of area are often available in the suburbs. People with school-age children find that smaller, less crowded schools with better facilities are preferable to schools in the city. Because schools can have better set of activities in the suburbs.

Crime rates tend to be lower in the suburbs than in urban areas, providing further incentive for families to shift there.

The cost of a house with a garden in the suburbs is often less than the cost of a quality apartment in the city.

It provides a Sense of Community. An individual in a city can often feel lost in the crowd, while living in a less densely populated area can offer more of a sense of belonging to a community.

As rooftops are built, new retail centres springing up providing a way of employment to many people. Not only that, but the barren land outside the cities used for new industries also provide employment to many people.

Low density is likely to help the environment. Gardens filled with trees and shrubs absorb dust and chemicals, so smaller amounts of pollutants escape into the air and water. In contrast, in dense urban areas buildings, roads, and parking lots take up a higher percentage of the land, leaving little for the natural environment to absorb pollutants.

Although the pros of urban sprawl may be less numerous than the cons, it's hard to qualify which factors outweigh one another. And clearly the advantages of suburban development are pretty substantial, considering its popularity and the continuing influx of people migrating to the suburbs.

Urban sprawl is the later stage of urbanization and is an inevitable phenomenon. Just like every other process urban sprawl has its own pros and cons. However, the negative aspects of urban sprawls can be minimised by monitoring their growth in a planned way, so that they do not become a liability either to the society, economy or the environment.