Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City Rethinking the open cityPlanners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. What is to be done? The…
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Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
Rethinking the open cityPlanners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. What is to be done? The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities.
Can disorder be designed?Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking work The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? The need for the Open City, the alternative, is now more urgent that ever.
In this provocative essay, Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the life of our cities. What the authors call 'infrastructures for disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism
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