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 import...

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1. Verfasser:	Fulton, William B. 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Washington ; Covelo Island Press 2022
Schlagworte:	Großstadt Wohlstand Stadtentwicklung USA Sociology, Urban / United States Urban economics City planning / United States Cities and towns / United States
Zusammenfassung:	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," 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 this book 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.
Beschreibung:	xxv, 187 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:	9781642832501