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This is exactly Jane Jacobs thesis in the greatly influential book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"

What Jacobs found is that communities thrive when there's a certain amount of chaos and layered complexity that arises from people interacting withe each other and the environment. That's why places such as Greenwich village and many old European cities seem so vibrant and full of life - they're not centrally planned, they've had time to mature and people have had the possibility to interact with the environment and each other in the chaotic neighborhood.

I think it's a pretty straightforward phenomenon: "chaos" = emergence and evolution. Prescriptive design = stagnation.

No intentionally-designed system has ever scaled to match the nuance of emergent complexity.

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