A Good Place

A good place is one predicated on emotionally moving situations rather than emotionally moving forms and that allows for unmediated human experience. Successful space is that which emerges (self-organizingly) from outsets that appear chaotic. Complexity is generated more from intersubjective human spontaneity than hyposurface geometry and must be found in social narratives rather than landforms. Under certain circumstances the form of a space can facilitate productive urban growth, but should not attempt to prescribe it. Although the totalitarian tendencies of the rationally planned city have reduced the intricacy of urban structuring to exceedingly simplistic levels, there is a layered complexity to the modern world beyond immediate comprehension. A good "place" is one that embraces the constant play of contrasts, errors, and uncertainties that inevitably circulate in urbanism.