Order wihout Design (The MIT Press) - How Markets Shape Cities

Alain Bertaud

The MIT Press

2018

432 páginas

14h 24m

ISBN-10: 0262038765

Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground―the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe their objectives is qualitative―“sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient”―often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings. In this book, the eminent urban planner Alain Bertaud argues that applying the theories of urban economics to the practice of urban planning would greatly improve both the productivity of cities and the welfare of urban citizens.