Urban serendipity or ruling chaos. Bucharest’s urban hotspot: Kaleidoscopic chaos

Abstract

More and more contemporary architects, urban planners and landscapers experiment and transform our cities in urban laboratories to innovate formulas for intelligent densities, sustainable mobility and greater efficiency. More they design different layouts, more they discover that those areas generated by greater serendipity foster a sense of flow; an urban life defined by chaotic diversity inexorably draw us in. In contrast with our parents, we seek disorder as a means to liberate us from control, routine, homogeneity. Bucharest is one of the most interesting case studies for urban serendipity, or in another words, understanding an urban planning process that is actually ruling chaos. A city of contrasts, illustrates in a creative way urban serendipity as assembling in kaleidoscopic pattern independent urban projects without a global city scale coherent strategy. These areas become urban hotspot polarizing multifunctional urban spaces and architecture in attractive innovation hubs planned for the unexpected.