In Jakarta, I mean, if we take Jabotabek area, the metropolitan area of Jakarta, now it's about 30 million people. Those 30 million people live together, have developed relationship together, you cannot move them. What I fear with the new city is that a lot of resources will be taken away from Jakarta and put in the middle of Calimonton. Don't forget that Jakarta is all its traffic jam, enormous traffic jam, pollution, and other still is much more productive.
Markets, Alain Bertaud likes to say, are like gravity: they exist everywhere. But while urban planners are quite good at taking gravity into account, they tend to ignore market forces entirely in their designs, resulting in city development that too often fails to address the needs of their residents.
Following the release of his recent book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, Alain joined Tyler in New York City for a discussion of the politics affecting urban centers, his advice to Robert Moses, whether the YIMBY movement can win, why he loves messy cities, what he got wrong about Shenzhen, why the Moscow subway is so wonderful, whether cities can move, favorite movies about cities, the region of the world most likely to start a charter city, how to reform the World Bank, his top three NYC planning reforms, why Central Park is the perfect size, and more.
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Recorded September 9th, 2019 Other ways to connect