We hosted an Artha Global Conversation with Dr. Alain Bertaud, Distinguished Fellow, Artha Global, and Dr. Bimal Patel, Distinguished Fellow, Artha Global on Alain’s book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, from 6:30-8:00 pm IST. The conversation was moderated by Pritika Hingorani, CEO (India), Artha Global. This was an in-person event hosted at the Artha Global office in Khar West, Mumbai.
About the event
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n discussed his book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities in which he argues that applying the theories of urban economics to the practice of urban planning would greatly improve both the productivity of cities and the welfare of urban citizens. He explains that markets provide the indispensable mechanism for cities’ development. Drawing on five decades of urban planning experience in forty cities around the world, Alain links cities’ productivity to the size of their labour markets, stresses the importance of mobility and affordability, and critiques the land use regulations in a number of cities that aim at redesigning existing cities instead of just trying to alleviate clear negative externalities.
About Dr. Alain Bertaud
Dr. Alain Bertaud is a Distinguished Fellow at Artha Global. He was principal urban planner at the World Bank for close to two decades. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked as a resident urban planner in a number of cities around the world, including Bangkok, San Salvador, New York and Chandigarh, where he worked as a draftsman for Le Corbusier. Alain earned the Architecte DPLG diploma from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is the author of the influential book Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities published by MIT Press and translated into Chinese and Portuguese.
About Dr. Bimal Patel
Dr. Bimal Patel is a Distinguished Fellow at Artha Global. He is an architect, urban designer, urban planner and academic who has criss-crossed disciplinary and professional boundaries to find ways in which architecture, urban design and urban planning can be used to enrich the lives of people living in India’s cities. He studied at the University of California Berkeley, from where he received a PhD in City and Regional Planning, and a dual Masters degree in Architecture and City Planning. His undergraduate education was at the School of Architecture CEPT in Ahmedabad from where he earned a Diploma in Architecture.