Planning a self organizing city

Abstract

‘The future of city-making is human-centric’, state-driven and market-driven urbanism have reflected their downsides. Human-driven city-making is oriented on an actual user and therefore should produce little vacancy and unnecessary space. Spaces will be directly equipped to suit the need and desires that the context provides. User will be more willing to invest if the result is more direct what will lead to bondage between the user and the location. For centuries people have had more influence on the development of their living environment than we do now. You could say that the last few decades of state-driven urbanism are the anomaly and not the human-centric approach towards urbanism. This thesis is an attempt to operationalize various visions on self organization into practical design principles.