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Alain Bertaud on Urban Planning and Cities
The Great Antidote
**The Role of an Urbanist in City Planning: Be a janitor **
An urbanist sees themselves as a family doctor for cities, aiming to support individual citizens' visions for the city rather than imposing a grand vision. They believe that cities are a sum of individual visions and that city managers should act as good janitors, providing infrastructure based on citizen needs and not imposing their own vision. The urbanist emphasizes the importance of understanding different cultures and making specific, culture-sensitive decisions without imposing a blanket vision on cities, akin to how a doctor should focus on treating specific ailments.
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