Urban acupuncture There is an interesting theory today called urban acupuncture, which refers to the idea that, when carefully considered as small-scale architectural interventions, they have the potential to make positive changes to a broader urban context. field. (Deyond, 2012) “Acupuncture” is a Chinese medical treatment procedure that involves penetrating the skin with needles to stimulate certain points on the body. In Chinese medicine, doctors suggest that our bodies are capable of healing themselves and use methods such as acupuncture and cupping to simulate points to treat patients. Similarly, many modern cities are sick, facing the problem of excessive urbanization: cities are filled with buildings and become concrete jungles, and a large amount of transportation causes pollution in cities. If we consider the city as an organism with different types of energy within its “body”, which is similar to the human being, urban acupuncture cures the city by modifying small parts of the city. In the first article Urban Acupuncture and Paradoxical Logic Systems, Deyond points to a concept of “leverage points” provided by Donella Meadows. The leverage point is the point in the system where a small change could lead to a large change in behavior. The idea of ​​the leverage point can be used not only in management, but also in urban design. The author highlights two points of leverage: material stocks and flows, that is, an urban infrastructure built from stocks and flows will have a large effect on the functioning of the system; and self-organization, that is, the organism and the social system can change themselves by creating new structures and behaviors. Deyond gives the example of Urban-think tank (U-TT), an architecture firm, which uses its Vertical Gymnasiums (VGs) and Metro Cable projects to illustrate these two points of leverage. The second article From Product to Process: Building on Urban Think Tank's Informal City Approach introduces a company called Urbanthink tank (U-TT) which focuses on the city problem and tries to initiate proposals for the city in construction projects in conflict zones. They have designed many projects in different parts of the world. Similar to this urban acupuncture is the method that "cures" the city and social problems by bringing changes to some parts of the city. Although there are cultural and social specificities, cities face common problems. Connecting the formal and informal city is the main purpose of their activities. They attempt to bring together communities, design ideas and urban actors on the ground who are the stakeholders in order to produce high quality architecture.