Order Without Design / Rethinking the Role of Government in City Development

[@adamj.7572]

We need a moral design

[@pif4347]

I wish the interviewer asked better questions, and interjected less. She’s one of the least succinct people I’ve heard. I’m halfway through this and I still have no grasp on what “order without design” means.

[@nogi7028]

She asked him a 2 paragraph long, 12-parter question. No wonder Bertaud looks confused

[@pif4347]

I know, It’s driving me crazy. It’s like an SNL skit. And her hundreds of extra words add nothing to the conversation. Once she asked this long ass question and I lost track of how many parts there were. And he simply responds with, “No.” I lost it!

[@pif4347]

I still don’t understand the concept of order without design. Maybe he really means “organic order” or “demand driven design”. I need to read the book, because this video literally doesn’t scratch the surface. An hour of fluff.

[@nogi7028]

"Order" is economic order aka the market. It determines the shape of a city. "Design" is a planner's regulation of the market/order. The book talks about planner's designs that distort the order (harmful regulation that distort the market and thus hurt the city people).