Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban RevolutionĪs New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world's greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Drawing on five decades of urban planning experience in forty cities around the world, Bertaud links cities' productivity to the size of their labor markets argues that the design of infrastructure and markets can complement each other examines the spatial distribution of land prices and densities stresses the importance of mobility and affordability and critiques the land use regulations in a number of cities that aim at redesigning existing cities instead of just trying to alleviate clear negative externalities. He cites the experience of cities without markets for land or labor in pre-reform China and Russia this "urban planners' dream" created inefficiencies and waste. Bertaud explains that markets provide the indispensable mechanism for cities' development. 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. Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
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