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Why Did Carmen Ramirez Have To Die?

It’s time to stop blaming pedestrians for getting killed on our streets.

Sep 4, 2022

Why Did Carmen Ramirez Have To Die?

Sep 4, 2022

Hurricane Harvey Should Have Taught Houston To Rethink How We Grow. We Haven’t Listened.

When it hit five years ago this week, Hurricane Harvey was an unprecedented disaster: 68 people dead, 200,000 homes damaged or destroyed, a…

Aug 28, 2022

Hurricane Harvey Should Have Taught Houston To Rethink How We Grow. We Haven’t Listened.

Aug 28, 2022

Admit It, Austin — Willie Belongs to Houston Too (At Least Partly)

I’m going to start traveling back and forth between Houston and Austin this week for work, which means that once I have to confront the…

Aug 20, 2022

Admit It, Austin — Willie Belongs to Houston Too (At Least Partly)

Aug 20, 2022

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The Day Milton Friedman Called Me Back. Collect.

Our recent bout with inflation brings to my mind the struggle everybody had understanding inflation the last time it afflicted our country…

Aug 13, 2022

The Day Milton Friedman Called Me Back. Collect.

Aug 13, 2022

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How Place Drives Prosperity

Better cities emerge when the people who shape them think more broadly — and intentionally about the places they are creating.

Aug 8, 2022

How Place Drives Prosperity

Aug 8, 2022

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…

Jul 24, 2022

How Houston Can Maintain Prosperity By Focusing On Place

Jul 24, 2022

Life On The Edge

People love living on the edge between human settlements and nature. But it’s a tough balancing act.

Apr 16, 2021

Life On The Edge

Apr 16, 2021

I Got Back On The Bus Yesterday. And It Was Fine.

All my fears and worries were unfounded. I’m back on the bus for good.

Apr 13, 2021

I Got Back On The Bus Yesterday. And It Was Fine.

Apr 13, 2021

Liberate The Minor-League Cities!

Major-league owners control virtually all baseball in the United States. It’s time to change the system.

Mar 9, 2021

Liberate The Minor-League Cities!

Mar 9, 2021

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Infrastructure Isn’t an Abstract Concept. It’s Very Personal

Sitting here in central Houston this week, with no water, spotty internet, and the looming fear that we would lose power and heat, I kept…

Feb 19, 2021

Infrastructure Isn’t an Abstract Concept. It’s Very Personal

Feb 19, 2021

Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton

Author, urban planner & former politician. Hometown: Auburn, NY. Current town: Houston. Latest book: Place And Prosperity.

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