America’s ten largest metro areas combine for 34 percent of total GDP, and some 80 percent of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing businesses are located in large urban areas. Simply put, cities are ...

Alain Bertaud: Time for Economics to Revolutionize Land Use Planning in the GTA? Alain Bertaud, in his recent book Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, makes the case for a revolution in ...

America’s ten largest metro areas combine for 34 percent of total GDP, and some 80 percent of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing businesses are located in large urban areas. Simply put, cities are ...

Who should run cities: economists or urban planners? This is a trick question. Neither group knows how to run such complex systems alone. But if urban planner Alain Bertaud had to choose, he’d vote ...

Urban economist and city planner Alain Bertaud on Saturday offered a critical and reflective assessment of Chandigarh’s urban evolution, as the Chandigarh Citizens Foundation (CCF) launched a ...

Editor's Note: The rise of urban clusters is undoubtedly a significant impetus propelling China's economic miracle. In a recent interview with the Global Times (GT) reporters Bai Yunyi and Wang Yi, ...

Chandigarh: For Alain Bertaud, the internationally renowned urbanist who worked with Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh in 1963, the city's first impression has stayed with him for life. What struck him ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Urban planners in many cities around the world are imposing regulations that discourage the creation of affordable housing while slums expand, experts said.

Metro Vancouver is threatened by an affordability crisis. The decision to reform cities lies with provincial elected officials, mayors and city councillors. They will choose urban reform only if they ...