# Senior Research Scholar Alain Bertaud discusses urbanization in China

1 Faculty News August 25, 2016 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg_0.jpg?itok=qy2YlnxP)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-25/how-big-can-china-s-cities-get) -- "'Adding more density to the cities won't work anymore,' says Alain Bertaud, a senior research scholar at New York University who has consulted in China for decades. The problem, he says, is that those cities are increasingly fragmented."

[Read more](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-25/how-big-can-china-s-cities-get)