The Paradox of Urban Diversity and Cohesion
摘要
What fosters spontaneous complexity in a city? What are the conditions that enable the emergence of complex social order? Where do effective action spaces and innovations appear and why? Chapter 3 argued that increasing the scope and design of central planning lowers the spontaneity and complexity of a city. This chapter examines in greater detail why that happens by addressing the question of how certain physical elements of a living city work together to spontaneously generate the diversity necessary for a complex urban order.