Main entry:

Bertaud, Alain, author.

Title & Author:

Order without design : how markets shape cities / Alain Bertaud.

Edition:

First MIT Press paperback edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2024.
©2018

Description:

xiv, 413 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-394) and index.
Economists and urban planners : two visions of cities that need to be merged -- Cities as labor markets -- Formation of urban spatial structures : markets versus design -- Spatial distribution of land prices and densities : models developed by economists -- Mobility : transport is a real estate issue--the design of urban roads and transport systems -- Affordability : household incomes, regulations, and land supply -- Alternative urban shapes and utopias -- Urban planners and urban economists have an important role to play if they manage to work together.

Summary:

"Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the gorund--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 eocnomics, 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."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9780262550970 paperback
0262550970 paperback

Subject:

Urban economics.
City planning.
Économie urbaine.
HISTORY Social History.
Stadtèokonomie.
Stadtplanung

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320039
Call No.: 320039
Copy: 1
Status: Available