Bill Fulton Announced as Keynote Speaker for the 2024 Southern California Demographic Workshop

The 2024 Southern California Demographic Workshop will feature noted author and planning thought leader Bill Fulton, FAICP, as keynote speaker. Fulton’s keynote will respond to recent population projections for the region and state based on his perspective as a former mayor, planning director, and influential author. Taking lessons from other states, Fulton will discuss how Southern California can adjust to an era in which prosperity is no longer—and need not be—determined by the pace of population growth.   

As one of California’s leading experts in urban planning and economic development, Fulton’s book Guide to California Planning is a standard urban planning textbook, and the national planning web site Planetizen named Fulton as one of the 100 leading urban thinkers in the world. Fulton is also the former mayor of Ventura and former director of planning and economic development for the city of San Diego. 

In addition to work with the William Fulton Group, Fulton is editor and publisher of California Planning & Development Report, the authoritative information source for urban planners in California; a Visiting Policy Designer at the University of California, San Diego Design Lab; and a Fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. In the past, Fulton also was director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, vice president for policy and implementation at the advocacy group Smart Growth America, and principal at Placeworks. Fulton has authored eight books, most recently Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us Connect and Innovate, published in 2022. 

Register today for the 2024 Southern California Demographic Workshop to learn more from Fulton and other regional experts about navigating the new growth reality to improve the quality of life for all who live and work in the region.