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City Planning’s Greatest Innovation
Makes a Comeback
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Paris Is Worth More than a Publicity Stunt
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Cities Need (a Lot Less) Planning
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How the Suburbs Could Become 15-Minute Cities
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Alain Bertaud’s Vancouver Visit
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Why Don’t We Just Build New Cities?
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Urbanism’s Newest Controversy
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The 15-Minute City Isn’t a Conspiracy.
It’s Just a Bad Idea
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Senior Fellow Alain Bertaud in CT Examiner
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Alain Bertaud Critiques Building New Cities
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Senior Fellow Alain Bertaud Mentioned
in Bloomberg Businessweek
Eric Goldwyn and Alain Bertaud
Mentioned in Il Foglio
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Atlanta Business Chronicle Notes Alain Bertaud
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Alain Bertaud Featured in Bloomberg CityLab
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Alain Bertaud in Reason
Will Cities Survive 2020?
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Xinhua News Agency Interviews Alain Bertaud
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Alain Bertaud Mentioned in Slate
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The Street Grid Stages a Comeback
In a Land of Cul-de-Sacs
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Connecticut's COVID-19 Transit Challenges
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Why Homes in the Bay Area Are Unaffordable
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A Conversation with Alain Bertaud
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Do We Really Want Our Mayors to Have a Vision?
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Minimum Space Standards Worsen the Housing Crisis
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Nolan Gray Interviews Alain Bertaud in CityLab
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The Prospects for China's Cluster City Strategy
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Urban Planning and Housing Prices
Leader: Alain Bertaud
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Alain Bertaud is a Fellow at the Marron Institute. He is the author of a book about markets and the practice of urban planning titled “Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities” published by MIT Press in December 2018. Bertaud previously held the position of principal urban planner at the World Bank. After retiring from the Bank in 1999, he worked as an independent consultant. Prior to joining the World Bank he worked as a resident urban planner in a number of cities around the world: Bangkok, San Salvador (El Salvador), Port au Prince (Haiti), Sana’a (Yemen), New York, Paris, Tlemcen (Algeria), and Chandigarh (India).
Bertaud’s research, conducted in collaboration with GIS-expert Marie-Agnès Bertaud, aims to bridge the gap between operational urban planning and urban economics. Their work focuses primarily on the interaction between urban forms, real estate markets and regulations. Bertaud earned the Architecte DPLG diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Bertaud has been recently interviewed about his book in podcasts by Russ Roberts and Tyler Cowen