What Can a ‘Science of Cities’ Offer Planners?
Michael Mehaffy – Like doctors who understand and support the body’s own immune system function, we can begin to understand and support the vernacular processes that are already occurring—and have occurred for centuries, making some of the world’s most complex, efficient, high-functioning urbanism today. By contrast, it is our supposedly “modern” methods of top-down, functional segregation that now look antiquated, primitive, and grossly inadequate for the challenges ahead.
