Center for Houston’s Future
The Center for Houston’s Future is an organization that brings together business and community to address the challenges that will shape the region’s future.
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Texas A&M College of Architecture
The Texas A&M College of Architecture is one of the partners for the Megaregions + MetroProsperity Conference. Professor Michael Neuman leads the effort there to understand the Texas Triangle’s unique demographic, economic, and resource statistics within the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Together with multidisciplinary graduate students, Professor Neuman has published an extensive review of the Texas Triangle, Texas Urban Triangle: Framework for Future Growth.
Envision Central Texas
Founded to address the growth in the 5-county Central Texas region including the state capitol in Austin, Envision Central Texas has been working since 2002 for smart growth alternatives, keeping the region’s residents in mind as it does so.
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Houston-Galveston Area Council
The Houston-Galveston Area Council, widely known as H-GAC, is the Houston area Council of Governments that addresses the public, economic, and environmental concerns of the 13-county Houston region. It includes the regional Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) that addresses transportation issues for the central 8-county region.
Behind many of these concerns is the growth issue. H-GAC addresses this issue by promoting “orderly development” as the region continues to grow. H-GAC is comprised of and works closely with local governments and their elected officials, which allows all counties and cities to voice their concerns. As a partner for the Megaregions + MetroProsperity conference, H-GAC’s support will allow the conference to consider the view of the Texas local governments as well as those members of the 13-county H-GAC community.
To learn more about the Houston-Galveston Area Council and its initiatives, please visit the H-GAC website.
America 2050
Megaregion and MetroProsperity conference co-host, America 2050, is a national initiative to bring about change in the approach to urban design to encompass a new global reality where most economic activity is clustered in megaregions. As megaregions continue to grow, America 2050 is addressing the issues involved for each region. In every megaregion, the pressure on the infrastructure, economy, and environment will ultimately grow beyond repair if the megaregions do not work with each other and the government to address the issues at hand. As the population of America is expected to increase immensely by 2050, America 2050 is preparing the country’s megaregions to handle this growth in a smart and sustainable way.
To learn more about America 2050 and its initiatives (including the Megaregion project), please visit the America 2050 website.
Vision North Texas
Vision North Texas is working in the 16-county North Texas region to improve quality of life and increase public awareness of economic and environmental issues. In addition, Vision North Texas promotes discussion on these topics, in order to be as effective and knowledgeable as possible when making decisions. Vision North Texas’s partnership in the conference will bring the issues of the North Texas region of the Texas Triangle to the table.
To learn more about Vision North Texas and its initiatives, please visit the Vision North Texas website.
University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development
As part of the University of Texas School of Architecture, the Center for Sustainable Development prides itself on addressing four important parts of any type of development: Economy, Ecology, Equity, and Esthetics. These four “E’s” work towards a final product that will be successful and sustainable. This idea of a standard of sustainable building is due to the Center’s belief that many environmental challenges are linked to the built environment. The Center, as a partner to the conference, will provide the architect’s point of view, which is extremely useful in a sustainable growth project. This will link the idea of sustainable growth to the megaregion growth issue.
To learn more about the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development and its initiatives, please see the UTSOA CSD website.