Order without Design
By Alain Bertaud
By Alain Bertaud
By Alain Bertaud
By Alain Bertaud
Category: Domestic Politics | Business
Category: Domestic Politics | Business
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$35.00
Aug 06, 2024 | ISBN 9780262550970
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Dec 04, 2018 | ISBN 9780262349222
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Praise
Definitely recommended, this is now one of my favorite books on cities.—Marginal Revolution—
Order without Design is a work with a clear vision for urban policy—a magnum opus from one of the twenty-first century’s great city planners. Similar to Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of the Great American City, Bertaud’s book manages to weave together theory and practice in a way that will be eye-opening to the curious urbanite and enriching to the practicing professional. If city planning has a future, its contours can almost certainly be found here.
—City Journal—I am indebted here to Alain Bertaud whose most recent book Order Without Design best articulates his view about cities as labour markets. If you love cities that view might seem a bit reductionist, but it is a pretty good description. A well-functioning labour market makes possible every other aspect of urban life.
—Transport Minister for New Zealand, Speech to Government Economics Network 2019 Conference—Table Of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Economists and Urban Planners: Two Visions of Cities That Need to Be Merged 1
2 Cities as Labor Markets 19
3 Formation of Urban Spatial Structures: Markets versus Design 51
4 Spatial Distribution of Land Prices and Densities: Models Developed by Economists 93
5 Mobility: Transport Is a Real Estate Issue–The Design of Urban Roads and Transport Systems 143
6 Affordability: Household Incomes, Regulations, and Land Supply 219
7 Alternative Urban Shapes and Utopia 307
8 Urban Planners and Urban Economists Have an Important Role to Play If They Manage to Work Together 349
Notes 383
Index 395
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