Abundance - A Metropolitan Abundance Project Podcast

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with Alain Bertaud. Alain’s a Senior Fellow at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a former principal urban planner with the World Bank, among many other titles. In the first half of this episode, we discuss the role of city planning, his optimism about micro mobility, and the perils of starting a city from scratch. In the second half of this episode, we discuss his fascinating career, spanning from post-colonial Algeria to post-Soviet Russia.

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with legendary parking guru Donald Shoup. Shoup is a distinguished research professor at UCLA and the author of The High Cost of Free Parking. We talk about some of the 2022 parking reform victories, the man behind the legend, and where we go from here.