{"id":6734,"date":"2021-10-08T20:37:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arch.tamu.edu.staging2.juiceboxint.com\/news\/2021\/10\/08\/outstanding-alum-henry-cisneros-discusses-texasbright-future-at-oct-8-lecture-book-signing\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:14:31","slug":"outstanding-alum-henry-cisneros-discusses-texasbright-future-at-oct-8-lecture-book-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arch.tamu.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/08\/outstanding-alum-henry-cisneros-discusses-texasbright-future-at-oct-8-lecture-book-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding alum Henry Cisneros discusses Texas\u2019\nbright future at discussion, book signing"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Lone Star State\u2019s destiny lies with the \u201cTexas Triangle,\u201d a vibrant network of metropolitan areas that represents the world\u2019s 15th<\/sup> largest economy, said Henry Cisneros ’68, a former mayor of San Antonio and U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary, in his book, \u201cThe Texas Triangle: An Emerging Power in the Global Economy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Cisneros, an Outstanding Alumnus of the College of Architecture, came to the college for a discussion and book signing Oct. 8, 2021, in the Adams Presentation Room.<\/p>\n The Texas Triangle consists of three major metro areas: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Galveston, and Austin-San Antonio, and the 35 urban counties that comprise those areas. The triangle will soon include four of the ten most populous cities in the U.S.<\/p>\n Cisneros and his co-authors, David Hendricks, a retired business editor and columnist at the San Antonio Express-News, J.H. Cullum Clark, director of the George W. Bush Institute\u2013SMU Economic Growth Initiative, and William Fulton, director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, see the triangle as a new, strong pinnacle in the global system of economic megacenters.<\/p>\n Fulton and Hendricks also appeared at the lecture and book signing.<\/p>\n In the book, Cisneros and his co-authors describe the trajectories of each of the Texas Triangle metros in which they live and work and integrate them into a larger dynamic of functioning cohesion and effective collaboration.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Texas Triangle\u201d offers community leaders, elected officials, policy makers, and others a nuanced understanding of an important moment in America\u2019s urban development. With broad perspectives for how community-building advances the public interest, the book lays important foundations for matching the path of economic prosperity to an informed sense of what is possible.<\/p>\n