Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Paperback)

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Economists and Urban Planners: Two Visions of Cities That Need to Be Merged 1
2 Cities as Labor Markets 19
3 Formation of Urban Spatial Structures: Markets versus Design 51
4 Spatial Distribution of Land Prices and Densities: Models Developed by Economists 93
5 Mobility: Transport Is a Real Estate Issue--The Design of Urban Roads and Transport Systems 143
6 Affordability: Household Incomes, Regulations, and Land Supply 219
7 Alternative Urban Shapes and Utopia 307
8 Urban Planners and Urban Economists Have an Important Role to Play If They Manage to Work Together 349
Notes 383
Index 395