ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to deepen the understanding of that idea, and of improvisation itself as a practice, in order to dispute the supposed binary opposition between improvisation and urban planning (and urban design), proposing improvisation be considered as a principle that’s intrinsic to urban practices, processes, and procedures. If savage thought is thought in a savage state, construction in a savage state would be self-construction, and urbanism in a savage state, through the exercise of bricolage, would be what the philosophers are defining as urban improvisation. The urban improvisations stemming from the bricolage are practiced in the form of montages, for they are continuously shifting in the endless montage/de-montage/re-montage process. Urban improvisations undoubtedly present us with what could be an alternative kind of planning, in permanent transformation as bricolage, an ad hoc urbanism: more complex, more open, and more processual.
