How Houston Can Maintain Prosperity By Focusing On Place

As the name of my new book of essays, Place And Prosperity, suggests, I have always believed that place and prosperity are deeply intertwined. A city or town probably won’t be prosperous unless it has lots of place amenities — things that draw people to the location like parks, good schools, restaurants and stores, cultural institutions, walkable neighborhoods. And a city or town probably can’t afford all those amenities unless it is prosperous.

And throughout my life, I’ve tried to seek out strong places, often in search of my own…