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• Presentation link: http://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/talks/wpf2016/

The “City of the Future”

The “City of the Future”

The “City of the Future”

What about people?

What is the city but the people?

• Shakespeare, Coriolanus

People develop, not places.

• Jim Russell, Pacific Standard

The “Inner City”

The “Inner City”

“Suburbia”

“Immigrant neighborhoods”

Urban models

Models and policy

Demographic “inversion”

Demographic inversion… is the rearrangement of living patterns across an entire metropolitan area. The poor and the newcomers are living on the outskirts. The people who live near the center are those, some of them black and Hispanic but most of them white, who can afford to do so.

• Alan Ehrenhalt (2012), The Great Inversion

Age and the city

Cities and the life course

Millennials

Millennials: separate destinations

The “shape” of communities

The cultural generation gap

Race and the city

The Racial Dot Map

Racial “inversion”

The geography of diversity

Immigration and the city

Mapping immigrant America

Immigration in Dallas-Fort Worth

Immigration in Dallas-Fort Worth

The demographic future of cities

TCU Center for Urban Studies

Mission

1. To support research on cities and metropolitan areas at TCU
2. To provide educational opportunities to TCU students interested in urban issues
3. To serve the Fort Worth and North Texas communities through partnerships with businesses, organizations, and governments

The Age of Fort Worth

Fort Worth Bike Sharing

Become a partner!

Opportunities include:

• Partnerships with area organizations looking for analytical support
• Sponsorship of community-based projects and student professional opportunities

Thank you!

• Email: kyle.walker@tcu.edu
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