Urban Planners Largely Ignore the Book

Bertaud's perspective is unusual and met with general hostility among academic urban planners—one anonymous reviewer said a book based on his idiosyncratic personal experience should not be published—yet the book sells in the top 10-15 in economics while ranking only 50-80 in urban planning, suggesting most urban planners are not reading it, though Bertaud is optimistic that ideas percolate over time and that new information and transport technology will accelerate change.