Fulton, William B., 1955-

Place and prosperity : how cities help us to connect and innovate / William Fulton ; [foreword by Rick Cole]. - 1 online resource (xxv, 187 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Place -- Chapter 1: The Making of an Urbanist -- Chapter 2: The Thinning Metropolis -- Chapter 3: The Garden Suburb and the New Urbanism -- Chapter 4: The Autocratic Citizen of Philadelphia -- Chapter 5: Having No Car but Plenty of Cars -- Chapter 6: Tom Hayden's Cars -- Chapter 7: Talk City -- Chapter 8: Why I'm Scared to Walk in Houston -- Chapter 9: My Favorite Street -- Part 2: Prosperity -- Chapter 10: Romancing the Smokestack Chapter 11: Company Town -- Chapter 12: The Case for Subsidizing the Mermaid Bar -- Chapter 13: Kotkin versus Florida -- Chapter 14: Houston, We Have a Gentrification Problem -- Part 3: The Promised Land -- Chapter 15: The Long Drive -- Chapter 16: The California Attitude -- Chapter 17: The Not-So-Reluctant Metropolis -- Chapter 18: Living the 2 Percent Life -- Chapter 19: My Los Angeles -- Conclusion: On the Morning after the Pandemic -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- About the Author -- Index

9781642832518 1642832510


Sociology, Urban--United States.
Urban economics.
City planning--United States.
Cities and towns--United States.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban economics.


United States.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

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