Modern Urban Planning
Economists vs. Planners? Complements, Not Substitutes
15 March 2008 - 1:33pm
Often, planners and economists seem to be at odds. Actually, a better description would be talking past each other—literally two ships passing in the night.
Planners often think economists are too narrowly focused on dollars, cents, and rational decisionmaking. Economists can’t understand why planners don’t recognize the real world of markets and why incentives matter—a lot.
The Urban Nightmare Of Le Corbusier
4 March 2008 - 7:00am
The Urban Reinventors Online Urban Journal
The machine-city envisioned by Le Corbusier, and made into practice in decades of modernist bureaucracy, has ultimately produced, according to Simon Richards' essay, an antisocial environment, against which urban planning seems to be now reacting.
