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Alain Bertaud on Order Without Design

Ideas of India

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Order Without Design

If the planning is too local, you have all kinds of incentive problems like nimbeism. So what is the right level at which we should think about planning? That's the easy last question. And then for structure, there is no doubt it's top down, especially for a large city. If you design it's your system for Delhi, you cannot ask people, do you want the men all here or here? It's top down while observing what is on the ground. Yeah. You know that I don't think it's a good idea for the state to say the shops will be there, the residents will be there.Yeah. The book is called Order Without Design.

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