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William Fulton

William Fulton

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William Fulton is a professor of practice at the University of California, San Diego, a senior adviser to PFM Consulting Group, and author of the Substack newsletter The Future Of Where. Previously he was mayor of Ventura, Calif., and director of planning and economic development for the city of San Diego, as well as director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University. He is the author of eight books, including Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us To Connect And Innovate.

There’s a dispute about whether the movement toward city living is real. But this either/or battle is a distraction.
As it turns out, there is no one answer.
Often-uninformed city leaders struggle with the decision, and taxpayers pay the price for their lack of financial knowledge.
Regardless of where they live, urban amenities are no longer a bonus but a requirement for many millennials.
There's a push to tear them down. But they're one of the biggest things driving the urban renaissance.
The sharing economy is challenging the demand for land-use regulations, but they're still necessary.
A solution to a decades-old parking problem in one city shows how others can harness the power of market economics.
They can't just improve the physical environment if they want to revitalize poverty-stricken areas.
Urban planners have historically had to do their jobs with only the dimmest understanding of what’s going on. Now they have more information than they can handle.
Most of them actually live in the suburbs.