# Senior Research Scholar Alain Bertaud explains the appeal of Amazon's new headquarters for cities

1 School News November 6, 2018 ![Crain's New York logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031171.jpg?itok=74z5O7mn)>

Excerpt from [Crain's New York Business](https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/amazon-reportedly-making-long-island-city-one-two-hq2-locations) -- "'For the city, it should be just a straightforward thing: We will get more benefit than what we are giving away,' said Alain Bertaud, a senior research scholar at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and author of Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. 'But we are dealing with a lot of data, which are not very clear. \[Government\] might be tempted to make a deal that will be to the detriment of the maintenance of the city.'"

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