According to Keith Bellows, editor of National Geographic’s Traveler ‘more than half the world’s population lives in cities, and in the past three decades the number of city dwellers has more than doubled to 3.3 billion…of course, it’s the people who are the essence of a city’s soul and spirit'.1

What is Urban Futures?

Born from a unique opportunity that brought TCU students from a diverse group of majors to the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, the Urban Futures Conference is a student lead initiative on green technologies in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.

Urban Futures will be an opportunity for all people, regardless of level of familiarity with environmental or ‘green’ issues to take part in the beginning of an ongoing environmental discussion within our local community.

Highlights will include a two hour ‘meet and greet’ section with people working in all sectors of green technologies such as energy, green design, environmental consulting, and agriculture. Several local businesses will be present to share their environmental knowledge. The symposium will conclude with our keynote speaker, LEED certified architect Peter Pfeiffer, from Bailey and Pfeiffer architecture firm in Austin Texas with intoduction by Mayor Mike Moncrief.

Registration is $35 for individuals including valet parking, coffee, tea, appetizers and access to a cash bar. There are student rates available. For booth registration please see the registration tab or send email to the address as the bottom of the page.

For more information on the list of exhibitors and to register as an attendee or as an exhibitor, please visit our links on this website or send email to address at the bottom of the page.

Conference Info:

Where: Omni Hotel Fort Worth, TX (1300 Houston Street, Fort Worth TX 76102) Texas Ballroom

When: April 9th
4:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Exhibitors
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker

Thank You: TCU and the Institute for Environmental Studies and the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute

1. 1.1. Bellows, K. (2009, March). Our Cities, Ourselves. National Geographic Traveler , p. 48.