The Alexander III bridge, centre, in Paris, on 11 July, 2023. Photo: AP/ Thomas Padilla
Alain Bertaud's thoughts over what works in growing cities have been shaped by five decades as an urban planner and experience in forty cities around the world.
He believes combining economic principles with planning practice leads to greatly improved productivity for cities and also improves the welfare of residents.
In his writing he links cities' productivity to the size of its labour markets, which in turn means affordable housing and good transport to support the workforce.
Alain Bertaud is a former principal urban planner at the World Bank and now works in urbanisation at New York University.
He is in New Zealand as a guest of the New Zealand Initiative, the Infrastructure Commission and Victoria University and is delivering a seminar Making Cities Work.
Alain Bertaud is an internationally recognized urbanist with over five decades of experience in urban planning, land markets, and spatial economics Photo: Alain Bertaud /Supplied
Alain’s session at Victoria University is on Wednesday, 18 March, https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/events/making/
He will also speak at Aotea Centre on Thursday, 19 March https://conversations.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/events/making-cities-work
