Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
By: Alain Bertaud
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urba…
Want to Read $ 25.99"Beaune plays the role of Wall Street for Burgundy wine."-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"Beaune plays the role of Wall Street for Burgundy wine."-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"Beaune plays the role of Wall Street for Burgundy wine."-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"If we look at the way an industrial producer creates new products, we see a long list of trials and errors and eventually improvement in quality at a lower cost. Urban policies and strategies, by contrast, often do not follow this logic; they are often repeated even when it is well known that they failed. For instance, policies like rent control, greenbelts, new light rail transports, among others, are constantly repeated in spite of a near consensus on their failure to achieve their objectives. A quantitative evaluation of the failure of these policies is usually well documented through special reports or academic papers; it is seldom produced internally by cities, however, and the information does not seem to reach urban decision makers. Only a systematic analysis of data through indicators allows urban policies to be improved over time and failing policies to be abandoned. But as Angus Deaton wrote: 'without data, anyone who does anything is free to claim success."-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
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Format: 80 pages, ebook
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5. The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
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6. The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
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16. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
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30. Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
By: Alain Bertaud
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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"Beaune plays the role of Wall Street for Burgundy wine."-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"If we look at the way an industrial producer creates new products, we see a long list of trials and errors and eventually improvement in quality at a lower cost. Urban policies and strategies, by con…"-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"For electric vehicles, the power plant generators alimenting the electrical grind will then produce the GHGs, not the car engine itself. Concerns for GHG emissions would then shift to the source of e…"-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"I want to make it clear that I am not implying here that all housing issues can be solved through market solutions. Many cases of homelessness, for instance, particularly in affluent cities, stem fro…"-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
31. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
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3.84
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