# Senior Research Scholar Alain Bertaud's work on spatial organization in cities is referenced in an article on the Green New Deal

1 School News February 9, 2019 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2019/02/09/green-new-deals-plan-for-planes-trains-and-automobiles-wont-work/#5ab86c13123f) -- "A city’s form matters because as urban planner and researcher Alain Bertaud points out, rail '…is incompatible with low densities and urban spatial structures that are dominantly polycentric.'"

[Read more](https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2019/02/09/green-new-deals-plan-for-planes-trains-and-automobiles-wont-work/#5ab86c13123f)