Life is fractal, but markets are square
Markets are the opposite of top-down linear design. Markets are full of feed-back loops and chaotic behavior.<p>Markets are the way for people to cease top-down planning and still get things done.<p>If we understood markets like we understand a chair there would be no economic crises.<p>As for suburbs - give them 500 years and then we can talk. You need time to accumulate all the changing pressures into something that looks organic - visit any old city in Europe :) All trees of particular species look the same when they start - after 100 years they usually look different because of the interplay between environment and them. Same with snowflakes and other traditional examples of fractals - including mountains and coast.<p>Suburbs are just starting, in a few centuries they will be as organic as old cities are.<p>Oh and regarding "linearity" of human inventions - it's much easier to make a mess than to make a good orthogonal design. If you don't limit yourself and write a code adding features as you need them you will end up with something that is very much organic, and that's not a positive - we call it "spaghetti-code" because when you try to change anything - it changes stuff in 100 different places.<p>Orthogonality in design isn't a byproduct of human limitations, it's a thing we constantly fight for, and we do that because it has advantages. You can easily optimize it and modify it for various purposes.