Pace the article @jake posted last week, Nolan Gray interviews Alain Bertaud for CityLab about why starting new cities is hard to do and seldom done well.
The Problem With Building a New City From Scratch
California needs to ease its housing crunch, but establishing brand-new cities isn’t the best way to do it, says urban planner Alain Bertaud. “The trouble is: Who wants to be first?”
bloomberg.com