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Jonathan O'Brien

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There is value, after all, in managing our cities. The coordination of public utilities, transport networks, green space, and infrastructure capacity is a role that private actors, uncoordinated, are unlikely to fulfil. These are the main market failures that effective planning should work to resolve.

The housing crisis is being managed by the wrong people

Planning policy has been monopolised by a small professional silo, which for decades has been insulated from external input, feedback, and oversight.

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