Diventity: Identity, Density and Diversity
I propose one simple caveat urban design should strive to implement:
“Good urban space optimises Diventity” *.
Diventity is a concept that links diversity, density, and identity, and I define it as such:
Diventity allows identity to recursively emerge from the density of diversity, when that density reaches a critical mass.
Readers interested in the “new sciences” of complexity, chaos theory, self-regulation, emergence, and so on, and in the worldview some call the post-Cartesian worldview (I have called it the Quantum paradigm) - will recognise in this definition notions of great relevance to living organisms, in particular to contemporary cities.
A city is much more than its stones, a city is memories and relationships and friendships and fears and ambitions; it is stories and histories interacting in the society-space-time continuum.