“The illusion of plan”

as Le Corbusier put it, is further warned against here in a piece about Karl Popper. The emphasis given in the quote below is mine.

He criticised what came to be called solutioneering: the jumping to solutions – reorganisations, replanning – without spelling out what the problem was, or if there was one. At the back of this lay “holism”, the belief that problems must be tackled “as a whole”. He showed that the holistic method turns out to be impossible. The greater the changes attempted, the greater their unintended and unexpected repercussions, forcing upon the holistic engineer the expedient of piecemeal improvisation – the “notorious phenomenon of unplanned planning”

» The Guardian: “A legacy of swans left to science : Karl Popper”

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