Alain Bertaud

Alain Bertaud is currently a senior fellow at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University. He teaches an urban planning course titled “Markets, Design and the City” for NYU graduate students. He is the author of a book on urban planning and markets published by MIT Press in December 2018 under the title “Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities.” Bertaud’s operational work as an independent consultant and researcher focuses on the interaction between markets, regulations, and transport infrastructure in shaping the spatial structures of cities. His most recent field assignments addressed operational issues concerning urban transport, land development and housing, and infrastructure projects implementation in cities of China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Vietnam, Columbia, Mexico, and South Africa From 1980 to 1999, he was a principal urban planner at the World Bank, where he advised local and national governments on urban development policies, mostly in China, Central, and Eastern Europe, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa. Bertaud always considered that urban research should be conducted simultaneously with on the ground implementation of real projects. Alain Bertaud graduated as architect DPLG from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, section architecture in June 1967. He has published several papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals, like Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics)