DESIGNING DISORDER

A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptableIn 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Diso rder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ide as and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City.The public sp aces of our cities are under siege from planners, privatisation and increased surveillance. Our streets are becoming ever more lifel ess and ...[Read more]