Adaptive planning as an interdependent approach enabling mixed programmes rather than compartmentalisation of functions is vital, with urbanism, seen as inseparable from living systems, making landscape its basic building block, as an active tissue of a socially nourishing identity. The metabolism of each city, urban conurbation and their relationships, influenced by today’s problems of organized and disorganized complexity, call for an urbanist sensibility that is homeopathic, not solely allopathic; that is networked, distributed, localized and situational.