[Intro]
City, where the most dense innovation, creativity, variation, and remix take place, with tons of whys of its failures and succeeds, is always the greatest pleasure for urban planners and designers. I always find this profession particularly fascinating because of this huge excitement one can discover along the way of practice. It's indeed a long journey, and perhaps never come to a point where one can claims himself/ herself to be an expert even with entire life committed to the profession. That's how I see myself fitting in this field of practice as a human living in, exploring within, and happened to involve in the making of the city. However, when the exploration becomes repetition, discoveries become the standards, this profession starts to lose its magic.
Needless to say that the world now is rapidly changing, and our lives are continuously reshaped by both tangible and intangible inventions. Mobile devices changed our ways of communication and fetching information, electric cars revolutionized the power supply chain and streetscape, the sharing economics right ahead of us is going to change entire merchant ecosystem, and there’s just too many to elaborate. As everyday city users, we definitely had noticed these changing of our urban lives, but do we consider ourselves capable enough to tackle with these changes, and incorporate them into our larger spectrum of practice? While all other creative professions are flooding into the cities trying to play around with the complex, urban designers and planners, however, seem remained conservative to, if not ignoring, the fact that the built cities are the great canvas waiting for more creativities.
