It's time to move on from legible, homogeneous urban planning. "Mess is more" in designing everything from buildings to neighbourhoods to cities. Structured messiness — having a profusion of diverse, small, shabby, weird spaces — fosters innovation by making it easy to test & swap out businesses and ideas.

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It's time to move on from legible, homogeneous urban planning. "Mess is more" in designing everything from buildings to neighbourhoods to cities. Structured messiness — having a profusion of diverse, small, shabby, weird spaces — fosters innovation by making it easy to test & swap out businesses and ideas.

Read it here: https://vaughntan.org/structuredmess

not-knowing ✹ 🍕-fan ✹ productive discomfort + idk ✹ Marseille / Singapore / Auvergne ✹ The Uncertainty Mindset (2020) ✹ now: vaughntan.org/now-ish

omg _would_ he actually be euphoric though

i think you're right that he would like structured messiness because it is about things to emerge in a space instead of dictating what goes into a space?

but idk

in his dotage he has began to recognise the need for our cities to be fuelled by a sense of curious messiness; driven by a vain attempt to counter the moneyed desolation as it breeds apathy