Alex Marshall
My last book, The Surprising Design of Market Economies, is about Infrastructure in the largest sense of the word. I show how governments build our economy and culture through physical, legal, educational and other types of infrastructure, and calls for a more democratic conversation about those choices.
When not writing books I write columns and articles. I was a consultant in 2018 for Google’s Sidewalk Labs and its Toronto project. I was a columnist for 15 years for the late great Governing Magazine. I have written for Metropolis, Bloomberg View, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Atlantic Cities and other publications. I teach about infrastructure and urban design, most recently at the Architecture school of The New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. I continue to be a Senior Fellow at Regional Plan Association in New York City, where I have an office and colleagues.
On the personal side, I take care of our son Max, born in 2004, and daughter Eleanor Claire, born 2018, and work to get their mother and my spouse Kristi to take care of me!