Like all professions, city builders often struggle to let go of outdated ideas.
What if we all agreed on our planning goals and then…acted accordingly?
Alain Bertaud is the rare urban planner who has read an economics textbook. Then, five years ago, he wrote a textbook of his own on the economics of cities: Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities.
In North America, city building is split between architects, urban planners, and urban designers. We can do better
Have we forgotten who we are building for?
Planning will neither save nor condemn our cities
