There are few more powerful questions than, Where are you from or Where do you live People feel intensely connected to cities as places and to other people who feel that same connection. In order to understand iplacei - and understand human settlements generally - it is important to understand that places are not created by accident. They are created in order to further a political or economic agenda. iBetteri cities emerge when the people who shape them think more broadly and consciously about the places they are creating. In iPlace and Prosperity How Cities Help Us to Connect and Innovatei, urban planning expert William Fulton takes an engaging look at the process by which these decisions about places are made, how cities are engines of iprosperityi, and how iplacei and iprosperityi are deeply intertwined. Fulton has been writing about cities over his forty-year career that includes working as a journalist, professor, mayor, planning director, and the director of an urban think tank