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Bill Fulton

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

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Repairing the Urban Fabric Ruined By Highways

From the hills behind the City Hall in my adopted hometown of Ventura, California, it’s less than 1,000 yards southward to the Pacific…

Feb 13, 2021

Repairing the Urban Fabric Ruined By Highways

Feb 13, 2021

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Why I Always Associate “Born To Run” with Houston

You’ve heard that old cliché that you can always remember where you were when you first heard of a favorite song. It’s a funny twist on…

Jan 24, 2021

Why I Always Associate “Born To Run” with Houston

Jan 24, 2021

How My Hometown Can Heal Its Urban Renewal Wounds

Auburn, N.Y., scarred its downtown a half-century ago with urban renewal and an arterial road. But change is possible.

Jan 2, 2021

How My Hometown Can Heal Its Urban Renewal Wounds

Jan 2, 2021

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Do You Have The “Place Gene”?

Everybody has it — an awareness of “place” that can enhance our life. Here’s how you can develop yours.

Nov 23, 2020

Do You Have The “Place Gene”?

Nov 23, 2020

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How My Hometown’s Failed Urban Renewal Strategy Shaped Me As An Urbanist

Auburn, New York, tore down half its downtown in the 1970s — and then nothing happened. Watching this happen shaped my life.

Oct 19, 2020

How My Hometown’s Failed Urban Renewal Strategy Shaped Me As An Urbanist

Oct 19, 2020

No Statue-Toppling In Talk City

By talking things through — as usual, at great length — one city resolved its statue quandary in a peaceful, orderly, and lawful way.

Oct 12, 2020

No Statue-Toppling In Talk City

Oct 12, 2020

My Favorite Street Is Closed To Cars. But Not To People.

My favorite street is closed to cars at the moment. But not to people. And that’s just fine with me.

Sep 29, 2020

My Favorite Street Is Closed To Cars. But Not To People.

Sep 29, 2020

A Boy Becomes A Man: Bill Fulton Goes From Auburn, N.Y., To The Front During World War I

William Alexander Fulton (1896–1955), for whom I was named, was for most of his life a jeweler in Auburn and lived a very normal life. But…

Aug 26, 2020

A Boy Becomes A Man: Bill Fulton Goes From Auburn, N.Y., To The Front During World War I

Aug 26, 2020

Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton

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

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