AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People
Conversations with Tyler
Socialist Cities - Where in a Market Economy, the Planners Were Slowing Down the Transformation
In a market city, developers realize that the land is expensive and therefore they can build more. If you are in a socialist country, like China before the reform or Russia at the time I were in the early 90s, you need the initiative of a planner to say we are going to build something new here. They will have to compensate not the owner but the user to move them somewhere else. So to the states, this is a net cash expenditure. To replace a low building by high building is a cash expenditure that the city has to pay. The system is reversed. In the market economy, the planners were slowing down the transformation where in a socialist economy,. the planners realize that it
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode