Texas Rising
Event Info
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The Smith Soc Houston Professional Chapter welcomes Joel Kotkin on Wednesday, September 14th for a private salon dinner and discussion on the subject of "Texas Rising" and the future of Houston, specifically, as a remarkable engine of economic progress. An expert on demographic, social, and economic trends in U.S. cities, Joel's most recent writing and research has been devoted to Houston.
Joel will discuss his contribution to the forthcoming "Texas Rising" issue of City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's quarterly journal of politics, policy, and culture as well as his latest book, The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us, which explores the purpose of the modern city and investigates the factors that drive most urban development today.
Speaker
Joel Kotkin, an internationally recognized authority on global, economic, political, and social trends, is Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and Executive Director of the Urban Reform Institute. He has completed studies on the future of several American cities—including New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Houston, and St. Louis—as well as international cities like London, Mumbai, and Mexico City. Other areas of research include Texas urbanism, the future of localism, the changing role of transit in America, and, most recently, California’s lurch toward feudalism. Mr. Kotkin is the author of many books, the most recent of which are The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class and The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us. He is also co-editor (with Alan Berger) of Infinite Suburbia. Mr. Kotkin is the Executive Editor of the website www.newgeography.com and a regular contributor to City Journal, The Daily Beast, Quillette, American Affairs, and Real Clear Politics.