The Urban Transformation Teachable Moment for Organized Complexity: Profession and Planet in Crisis

Tigran Haas; Michael Mehaffy

The Urban Transformation Teachable Moment for Organized Complexity: Profession and Planet in Crisis

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The wave of US suburban foreclosures that was “Ground Zero” of the worldwide recession of 2008–2009 was a culmination of almost a century of unsustainable planning practices. Those practices are deeply embedded in conventional technology, institutions, and habits of thought. In particular, they are enshrined in “siloed” professions and disciplines that also continue to employ a “siloed” and segregated model of planning and design. The urban scholar Jane Jacobs analyzed this condition accurately, and prescribed the adoption of the insights and methods that are now common in the biological sciences. Such methods offer much hope for a reformation of policy and best practice – but only if their lessons are heeded, understood and, finally, implemented.

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