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In his new collection of essays, Bill Fulton gives readers new to urbanism a set of magic goggles for reading places and understanding why they like some, and not others. For practitioners like me, he reminds us of how economic development should be thought of as a chance to co-invest in making the city, large or small, a greater physical place - creating a park, widening sidewalks, developing a key transit site to better connect to surrounding neighborhoods. Companies may come and go, but great cities are beloved places of enduring value. --Harriet Tregoning, former Planning Director of Washington DC and Director of the New Urban Mobility alliance (NUMO) Place and Prosperity reminds me of Bill Fulton himself: straight-forward and interestingly nuanced, deeply insightful and provocatively contrarian, sometimes skeptical and always hopeful. Fulton's gift is that he understands people and therefore understands cities. He connects the quest for prosperity, peace, and freedom in our society to the quality of life in our urban places. This book is actually a chronicle of his life envisioning livable communities in order to create better chances in life for everyone. --Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and former mayor of San Antonio, Texas This book is both Fulton's Bildungsroman--tracing the arc of his intellectual development--and the chronicle of the great urban comeback of America's cities. Fulton is the only urban thinker of our time who combines the sharp eye of a journalist, the objective rigor of an academic, and the practical experience of a leader. --Rick Cole, Executive Director of the Congress for the New Urbanism and former Mayor of Pasadena, California

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William Fulton is the author or co-author of seven books, including The Regional City with Peter Calthorpe (Island Press) and The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, which was an L.A. Times best-seller and is still in print (Johns Hopkins University Press) after more than 20 years. Over the past four decades, he has established himself as one of America's major thought leaders on cities and urban affairs, having written hundreds of articles and given dozens of keynote speeches around the country. Currently the Director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, he is a former Mayor of Ventura, California, and Director of Planning and Economic Development for the City of San Diego.

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