Description: Bringing a fresh perspective to current debates over the "free market," this wide-ranging look at how market economies are designed and constructed helps us understand how "the market" works and how we can build fairer and more effective markets.
Brief description: From the way roads and rails shape our cities to the way laws shape our economies, Alex Marshall has long sought and explored the underlying systems that shape our worlds. A journalist, writer, and former Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, he is the author of How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken and Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities. Marshall is a Senior Fellow at the Regional Plan Association in New York. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Metropolis, Planning, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Slate, Salon, Architecture, Revue Urbanisme, and many other publications.
Review Quotes: "Offers keen insights into urban planning, public works, and even the history of New York's onetime ambivalence toward a professional police force."-- "New York Times" (9/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)