In this episode, I chat with Alain Bertaud. He’s a Senior Fellow at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and a former principal urban planner with the World Bank, among many other titles. In the first half of this episode, Alain and I discuss the role of city planning, his optimism about micro mobility, and the perils of starting a city from scratch. In the second half of this episode, we discuss his fascinating career, spanning from post-colonial Algeria to post-Soviet Russia.