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Liberalizing Cities
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After a 15 year experiment, England is phasing out the New Homes Bonus that has been part of the formula for distributing funds to local governments since 2011. In revamping the broader funding scheme, the current government explained its decision:…
Thanks to Infrastructure Lab at the National University of Singapore, there’s now a global atlas of every (??) data center built or proposed, as well as a catalog of active legislation, including across US states. Check it out.
Samuel Hughes asks an excellent question in Works in Progress: Why aren’t there any YIMBYs, or NIMBYs for that matter, in continental Europe? It’s not for lack of high home prices. Instead, Hughes hypothesizes that underlying NIMBYism is in fact…
Two useful resources came across my desk this week. From Sargun Kaur and Bhuvana Anand, an analysis of recent building reforms in eight Indian states – not all of which succeeded in expanding the practically buildable space. They use a…
A Vietnamese business paper provides a fascinating window on land prices – official versus market – in an economy that has partially transitioned from socialism to markets: Hanoi has been collecting public feedback on its first-ever land price list, set…
Check out Alain Bertaud's Master Class lecture at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India.
In Mumbai, there is a specific type of architect who has become the interpreter of regulations and there are those architects who are aestheticians working on building skins. As much as there is convenience in this split, it has taken away a big part of the agency of the architects in the city.
Most master plans are a costly effort by a team of temporary consultants, spread over two to three years, to prepare a blueprint that is usually obsolete as soon as it is completed.
Promotors of recently developed cities ranging from Nusantara, the freshly built capital of Indonesia, to Neom, Saudi Arabia’s futurist urban paradise, advertise them as breakthroughs in urban living. But does the world need new cities?
Alain Bertaud revisits a Mumbai development project he helped design in 1983. The neighborhood is thriving.
