{"product_id":"order-without-design-how-markets-shape-cities","title":"Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder without Design: How Markets Shape Cities\u003c\/strong\u003e is Alain Bertaud's argument that urban planning would work far better if it drew on the tools of urban economics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlanners make fast decisions with lasting physical consequences—street widths, minimum lot sizes, building heights—yet tend to describe their goals in qualitative terms such as 'liveable' or 'resilient' that rarely connect to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, by contrast, is a quantitative discipline built on theory, models and evidence, but it has largely stayed in the academy. Bertaud sets out to bring the two together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on five decades of work in some 40 cities, he treats markets as the essential mechanism of urban development, pointing to the waste produced where land and labour markets were suppressed, as in pre-reform China and Russia. He links a city's productivity to the size of its labour market, shows how infrastructure design and markets can reinforce each other, and examines how land prices and densities are distributed across a city. The book closes with a proposal for joint teams of planners and economists to manage cities better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA practitioner's synthesis of urban planning and urban economics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvidence from five decades of work in around 40 cities worldwide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnalysis of land prices, densities, mobility and affordability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA critique of land-use regulations that try to redesign existing cities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy a city's labour market size is central to its productivity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow infrastructure design and market forces can complement one another\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat happened in cities without land or labour markets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow planners and economists could work together to manage cities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlain Bertaud is Senior Research Scholar at New York University's Marron Institute of Urban Management. He has worked as Principal Urban Planner for the World Bank and as an independent consultant and resident urban planner in cities from Bangkok to New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780262550970\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e MIT Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e Urban planners, urban designers and policymakers, students of urban economics, and architects interested in the forces that actually shape cities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49153347518689,"sku":"9780262550970","price":95.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9780262550970.jpg?v=1789780160","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/order-without-design-how-markets-shape-cities","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}