urbanism

Jeff Beck said something like "Things work out better by accident but you can't plan accidents." And that idea is wrong. You can encourage randomness to sort of "guide" you potentially happy accidents.

I remember googling "dérive" years ago and checking out the Wikipedia page but I didn't like what I read. What's a good, concise definition? Is dérive basically the walking around version of aleatory?

aleatory (also aleatoric)

1 Depending on the throw of a dice or on chance; random.

1.1 Relating to or denoting music or other forms of art involving elements of random choice (sometimes using statistical or computer techniques) during their composition, production, or performance: aleatory music a photograph can capture the aleatory chaos of modern urban life

Etymology: late 1600s from Latin aleatorius, from aleator "dice player", from alea "die", + -y^1.