Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People

<p class="graf graf--p">Markets, Alain Bertaud likes to say, are like gravity: they exist everywhere. But while urban planners are quite good at taking gravity into account, they tend to ignore market forces entirely in their designs, resulting in city development that too often fails to address the needs of their residents.</p> <p class="graf graf--p">Following the release of his recent book, <a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" href= "https://www.amazon.com/Order-without-Design-Markets-Cities/dp/0262038765" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-href= "https://www.amazon.com/Order-without-Design-Markets-Cities/dp/0262038765"> <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities</em></a>, Alain joined Tyler in New York City for a discussion of the politics affecting urban centers, his advice to Robert Moses, whether the YIMBY movement can win, why he loves messy cities, what he got wrong about Shenzhen, why the Moscow subway is so wonderful, whether cities can move, favorite movies about cities, the region of the world most likely to start a charter city, how to reform the World Bank, his top three NYC planning reforms, why Central Park is the perfect size, and more.</p> <p><a href= "https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-alain-bertaud-cities-urbanism-3321136c71d8"> Transcript and links</a></p> <p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/tylercowen">Tyler</a> on Twitter</p> <p class="graf graf--p">More CWT goodness:</p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://facebook.com/cowenconvos">Facebook</a></p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://twitter.com/cowenconvos">Twitter</a></p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/cowenconvos/">Instagram</a></p> <p class="graf graf--p"><a href= "https://mercatus.org/newsletters">Email</a></p>