About this Event
Join Community Design Fort Worth and AIA Fort Worth for the first Urban Design Talk of the year!
When & Where
Thursday, April 10th
WRG Fort Worth: 707 W Vickery Blvd Suite 101, Fort Worth, TX 76104
Doors Open at 5:30pm, Design Talk will begin at 6:00pm
Tickets
$25 donation per ticket appreciated
Free tickets available
Continuing Education
This event is worth 1.5 AIA Learning Units
Description
Fort Worth is no longer a small town. With almost a million people, it is now the 11th largest city in the country. It has more vacant land than most large cities and given this expansion potential, it is likely to move up the list in the next few years.
As Fort Worth “grows up,” the city faces two different types of growth and development challenges:
1. how to manage “infill” development in a way that strengthens neighborhoods and business districts; and,
2. how to “build better suburbs” so they are an asset to the city and not a financial drain.
This Design Talk will feature Bill Fulton, FAICP, author of the recent book, Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us to Connect and Innovate. Bill brings to the conversation decades of experience and in 2009 was named one of Planetizen’s Top 100 Urban Thinkers. He will discuss how cities, as they grow bigger, can use comprehensive planning and placemaking to strengthen communities and economic success and ensure that the built environment provides the city’s people with both a high quality of life and a favorable economic return.
About the Author
William Fulton is one of America’s most established thought leaders in the field of urban planning. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor to PFM Management and Budget Consulting and a Fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. From 2014 to 2022, he served as the director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. He is a former Mayor of Ventura, California, and Director of Planning and Economic Development for the city of San Diego. His previous books include Guide to California Planning, the standard urban planning textbook in California, The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, which was a Los Angeles Times best-seller, and The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (with Peter Calthorpe). Fulton holds master’s degrees in mass communication from The American University and urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Book Purchases
Place and Prosperity by William Fulton can be purchased here.
Get 20% off with code FULTON at check out
Signed copies will be available for purchase at the event
THANK YOU SPONSORS!
Organizational Level Sponsors:
AIA Fort Worth
Community Design Fort Worth
City of Fort Worth
Early Davis - Republic Title
Individual Level Sponsors:
Near Southside, Inc.
Jeff Whitacre
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
WRG Fort Worth Showroom, 707 W Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth, United States
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