“Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us to Connect and Innovate” by William Fulton

CT.org looks forward to the soon to be released work that addresses connections and innovations as important parts of every cities’ desire to be an interesting, pleasant and prosperous place for residents, businesses and visitors. 

 “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.