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Book Review - Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City -

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Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet are established professors and urbanists who have significantly contributed to architecture, planning, sociology, and others throughout their careers. Designing Disorder is a follow-up book to Sennet’s 1970 title Uses of Disorder. This new book serves to revisit some of its themes in the form of a three-act play where Sennet sets the stage, Sendra builds the conflict, explores “Disorder” through place-making. It comes together and the end when the authors are interviewed together. The book is about boosting social interactions in cities by making room for chance encounters. It argues that when cities make things like power and water systems more accessible—things we usually don’t see or think about—it can help increase activity. It also gives examples of how cities can encourage the kind of interactions we all want, without just falling back on the usual excuses for why they don’t. Designing Disorder begins with some vocabulary building. “Disorder”, for

Authors: Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet (Verso, 2020) Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennet are established professors and urbanists who have significantly contributed to architecture, planning, sociology, and others throughout their careers. Designing Disorder is a follow-up book to Sennet’s 1970 title Uses of Disorder . This new book serves to revisit some of its themes in the form of a three-act play where Sennet sets the stage, Sendra builds the conflict, explores “Disorder” through place-making. It comes together and the end when the authors are interviewed together. The book

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