Order Without Design
How Markets Shape Cities
by Alain Bertaud
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“@snoble @paulg Started reading this recently, it's great! I'm probably biased because I believe in free markets over central planning, but regardless, I've been really enjoying this book. | Order Without Design (2018) is an interesting book. The fundamental premise is that a city is foremost a job market, and that market shapes the city. San Francisco's most pressing issue is that all those fancy jobs that started here no longer need to be done downtown.”
Source →“@snoble @paulg Started reading this recently, it's great! I'm probably biased because I believe in free markets over central planning, but regardless, I've been really enjoying this book. | Order Without Design (2018) is an interesting book. The fundamental premise is that a city is foremost a job market, and that market shapes the city. San Francisco's most pressing issue is that all those fancy jobs that started here no longer need to be done downtown.”
Source →“@snoble @paulg Started reading this recently, it's great! I'm probably biased because I believe in free markets over central planning, but regardless, I've been really enjoying this book. | Order Without Design (2018) is an interesting book. The fundamental premise is that a city is foremost a job market, and that market shapes the city. San Francisco's most pressing issue is that all those fancy jobs that started here no longer need to be done downtown.”
Source →Recommended by 5 notable people, including Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Alexis Ohanian
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An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the groundthe width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heig...
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“@snoble @paulg Started reading this recently, it's great! I'm probably biased because I believe in free markets over central planning, but regardless, I've been really enjoying this book. | Order Without Design (2018) is an interesting book. The fundamental premise is that a city is foremost a job market, and that market shapes the city. San Francisco's most pressing issue is that all those fancy jobs that started here no longer need to be done downtown.”
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