Alain Bertaud Addresses the Role

Writing in the New Zealand Initiative, Senior Fellow Alain Bertaud outlines the limited role of urban planners in “Let Cities Find Their Own Order”:

Planners should instead focus on what they can genuinely control and design well: streets, parks, and public spaces. That is where planning adds real value. 

The rest should be left to the people who build, inhabit, and enliven our cities. They understand their needs better than any master plan ever could.

Bertaud was in New Zealand for an event, “Making Cities Work,” hosted by the New Zealand Initiative; the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga; and the Victoria University of Wellington School of Government.

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