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:

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

just throwing lebbeus woods in there casually like that is a real flex

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