Finding an 'Order' in the 'Disorder'

Interventions to create an order either from scratch or within an existing situation so as to resolve the disorders either prevailing or accentuating, overrides the virtues associated with the latter and results into more inequitable and non-soluble conditions over a period of time. It is important to understand that as with advantages, disadvantages too occur, so is in the transposed process. Though the interventions might have been necessary at a given context, which may be serving the purpose of a single facet, but the prerequisite for such intercessions are the multitude implications that it transcends into the city life, if not scrutinized keenly. "Crossing a street I come across a roadside tea stall and pause for a moment to have a cup of the hot tea. I gaze at the men standing beside me and recognize one of them who happens to be an old friend of mine and who also turns out to be the saviour hand for a problem which I had got stuck into." "On a fine evening I go for a walk along the tree-lined street and all of a sudden it starts raining. O my! I forgot my umbrella; I look around and thankfully find a small canvas shelter under which a soothsayer is sitting by." Do we ever wonder how people in the developed and perfectly organized cities could have managed? The city is a people-made ecosystem created for mutual enrichment. In an ecosystem, everything is inter-related and inter-dependent. Each organism provides something, which is essential for the life of other organisms and, in return, receives from other organisms those things essential for their own survival and well being. Take any of these organisms away from the context of their ecosystem and their growth and survival will be stunted. Similarly the city is an ecosystem where through mutual exchange (in both giving and receiving) we are nurtured and mature. In nature you never see trees growing in a neat row or laid out in symmetrical designs. What a tree is to the forest, a building is to the city. As planners and designers, most of the time our intentions are always not to leave scope for unprecedented events to occur, either through physical barring or by law and legislation. On one hand mechanistic thinking hates disorder and diversity and on the other, nature is full of it. Chaos is absolutely essential for the emergence of new life forms. Chaos allows for the chance meeting of two previously unconnected elements, which could not have met in a totally ordered world. Diversity provides the pool of ideas, chaos the chance for them to meet. Both chaos and diversity are essential to life and therefore are inseparable from sustainability