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Event video: Making Cities Work with Alain Bertaud

Bertaud is an urban planner whose work has shaped city policy debates internationally. Over a career spanning several decades, he has advised governments and institutions on urban development, housing markets and infrastructure, including work with the World Bank and on major city reforms across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. He is the author of Order Without Design, a landmark book that has helped inform New Zealand’s cross-party consensus on the need for more enabling urban policy and planning reform. Alain last visited New Zealand in 2014, as a guest of The New Zealand Initiative. Watch his seminar below, which was held at Victoria University of Wellington on 18 March 2026.