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December 04, 2022  |  permalink

Central Houston Inc: The State and Future of Downtowns

The good folks at Central Houston Inc. — the organization championing and improving the core of America’s third-largest metro — invited me to keynote their annual luncheon on November 3rd. I was asked to help frame the opening remarks by Mayor Sylvester Turner (pictured below) and Central Houston Inc. CEO Kris Larson’s address on the state — and future — of downtown with a glimpse of what other cities are doing around the U.S. (and world). Click on the video above to watch my short-and-sweet keynote.

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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he leads The Metaverse Metropolis — a new initiative exploring the implications of augmented reality at urban scale. He is also a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, a senior advisor to Climate Alpha, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative.

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