"Building rehabilitations, informal economies, festivals, dynamic public spaces. I think this is where cities are generative, are true to themselves, and most importantly, where they are resilient. An environment that is constantly in flux, investigating possibilities and testing changes, is more resistant to crippling change from the outside. In other words, an entropic city evolves, where as a planned city exists in fits and starts, in booms and busts.
Institutional structures restrict entropy exactly because it is unpredictable, and neither markets nor planners like things that they can’t expect"
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