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Order Without Design Is Translated into
Portuguese and Discussed in Brazil
Marron Scholars Participate in
NYU New Cities Conference
Alain Bertaud Speaks on Urban Development
Alain Bertaud Hosted By Harvard’s Growth Lab
Order Without Design Available in Chinese
Remembering Marie-Agnès Bertaud
Alain Bertaud Speaks on Urban Planning Lessons
Alain Bertaud Speaks on Reconstruction of Cities
After War
Alain Bertaud Speaks About the Greater Bay Area
The Last Urban Utopia: The 15-Minute City
By Alain Bertaud
Senior Fellow Alain Bertaud Honored
at Vancouver Public Salon
Alain Bertaud Discusses Urbanism on Caos Planejado
Alain Bertaud Delivers Talk on Order vs. Planning
The Fight Between Spontaneous Order and Central Planning
Alain Bertaud Participates in a Discussion
of Cities in a Post-COVID World
Alain Bertaud in Foundation for Economic Education
Piece Featuring Order Without Design
Bertaud Participates in Panel
on Core Housing Need in Canada
Startup Societies Foundation Interviews Bertaud
Alain Bertaud Participates in URBANvision Webinar
Reading for Life
One of the Best Books Ever Written About Cities
Alain Bertaud’s Book Continues to Make Its Mark
"Order Without Design" Videos Series
The Future of Cities in the Age of Pandemics
A New Podcast with Alain and Marie-Agnes Bertaud
Market-Based City Policy
a Q&A with Alain Bertaud
Alain Bertaud Tops Multiple Year End Lists
Alain Bertaud and Tyler Cowen
Talk Cities, Markets, and People
Alain Bertaud on EconTalk with Russ Roberts
Romer & Bertaud Discuss "Order without Design"
Alain Bertaud's New Book from MIT Press
Coming October 2018
Alain Bertaud: Cities as Labor Markets
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The 15-Minute City Isn’t a Conspiracy.
It’s Just a Bad Idea
Senior Fellow Alain Bertaud in CT Examiner
Alain Bertaud Critiques Building New Cities
Senior Fellow Alain Bertaud Mentioned
in Bloomberg Businessweek
Eric Goldwyn and Alain Bertaud
Mentioned in Il Foglio
Atlanta Business Chronicle Notes Alain Bertaud
Alain Bertaud Featured in Bloomberg CityLab
Alain Bertaud in Reason
Will Cities Survive 2020?
Xinhua News Agency Interviews Alain Bertaud
Alain Bertaud Mentioned in Slate
The Street Grid Stages a Comeback
In a Land of Cul-de-Sacs
Connecticut's COVID-19 Transit Challenges
Why Homes in the Bay Area Are Unaffordable
A Conversation with Alain Bertaud
Do We Really Want Our Mayors to Have a Vision?
Minimum Space Standards Worsen the Housing Crisis
Nolan Gray Interviews Alain Bertaud in CityLab
The Prospects for China's Cluster City Strategy
Urban Planning and Housing Prices
Initiative Lead: Alain Bertaud
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