Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities abstracts cities to what Alain Bertaud claims is their fundamental purpose: a market for labor. Using this abstraction, the book explores land use, transportation, jobs, housing, and more in the context of markets. In this analysis, Bertaud draws on his years of experience as a city planner across the world to vividly describe the various forces that built everything from informal slums in Mumbai—the inevitable result, he argues, of regulations...
