There are few more powerful questions than, “Where are you
from” or “Where do you live?” People feel intensely connected
to cities as places and to other people who feel that same
connection. In order to understand place – and understand human
settlements generally – it is important to understand that places
are not created by accident. They are created in order to further a
political or economic agenda. Better cities emerge when the people
who shape them think more broadly and consciously about the places
they are creating. In Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us to
Connect and Innovate, urban planning expert William Fulton takes an
engaging look at the process by which these decisions about places
are made, how cities are engines of prosperity, and how place and
prosperity are deeply intertwined. Fulton has been writing about
cities over his forty-year career that includes working as a
journalist, professor, mayor, planning director, and the director
of an urban think tank in one of America’s great cities. Place
and Prosperity is a curated collection of his writings with new and
updated selections and framing material. Though the essays in Place
and Prosperity are in some ways personal, drawing on Fulton’s
experience in learning and writing about cities, their primary
purpose is to show how these two ideas – place and prosperity –
lie at the heart of what a city is and, by extension, what our
society is all about. Fulton shows how, over time, a successful
place creates enduring economic assets that don’t go away and lay
the groundwork for prosperity in the future. But for urbanism to
succeed, all of us have to participate in making cities great
places for everybody. Because cities, imposing though they may be
as physical environments, don’t work without us. Cities are
resilient. They’ve been buffeted over the decades by White
flight, decay, urban renewal, unequal investment, increasingly
extreme weather events, and now the worst pandemic in a century,
and they’re still going strong. Fulton shows that at their best,
cities not only inspire and uplift us, but they make our daily life
more convenient, more fulfilling – and more prosperous.
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