Graduate / SOP FOR MASTER DEGREE IN PLANNING IN CANADA [4]

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It was one of our typical family gatherings, yet considerably more appealing to me in the case that the subject was something more tangible; traffic congestion in Tehran a city notorious for its gridlocks. Such discourses however spurred me to observe my environment more meticulously and triggered my inquiring mind to experience and seek for answers in my long walks back from school every day so that I could try and follow the ambitions of my favorite writer, Paulo Coelho, who sees no substitute for experience. It was then that I came across SIM city a game which empowered me to build my own city and address all the necessities of its citizens which were apparently real life ordeals of all cities. While the game was giving me a sense of fulfillment it eventually cultivated a real love of the intricacies of urban issues in me. Later in high school a new phenomenon captured my fascination and amazed me by its complex interactions and connections. Internet despite its analogues to our actual lives was extremely organized and efficient. These features of the net made me follow the trace of my intense curiosity and experience this latest advancement of human beings by designing web sites in my leisure times. In the final year of high school my interest in seeking an explanation for all the thorny questions obsessing my mind since my childhood, from causes of traffic jams to the great public dissatisfaction that I encountered in my daily journeys and greatest of all the incapability of technology to answer the needs of our urban deficiencies, led me to the conclusion that I have to choose a field with broader perspective which could avail me to answer these issues or to be part of the given answer.

At university when doing assignments for cognition of urban spaces which involved conducting surveys to define individuals' behaviors, the pattern followed by the responses seemed to intrigue me and make me ponder over the application of these existing common threads of attributes in our planning and designs in order to serve the need of human's environmental interactions. Later on after learning more about the analytical abilities of GIS in my assignments for the course of design and application of urban information systems I realized the vast potentials of this program as a powerful analytic tool for multi criteria evaluations in urban issues that could replace the practiced methods of try & error.

More recently in late 2010, a European unions' project concentrating on the simulation of the entire world and the creation of a virtual world with all the interactions of the real life captured my attention, and once again my appetite for a genuine experience generated an enthusiasm in me that wanted to learn more about virtual spatial analysis and simulation. Interestingly, I met a graduate student at an urban landscape conference who was studying GIS in Malaysia. During the time that we were in contact he understood me passions, and introduced some useful articles to me which were mostly related to the application of GIS in placement of land use's and transportation management. This acquaintance for me was a beginning of a new era in which I realized that GIS is something more than just software. While my mind was preoccupied with these articles, I began to wonder about the feasibility of implementing these methods in projects like disaster management and in my own country, but this entailed graduate education and professional assistance which did not seem to exist in Iran, so I embarked on my search for universities abroad to take my knowledge to the next level.