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ULI initiates research that anticipates emerging land use trends and issues, proposing creative solutions based on that research.

ULI documents best practice and publishes books to impart cumulative knowledge to help the development community continuously improve its performance.
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Design Dividend

Responses to shaping growth can add value to the build environment through good design—in terms of both net revenue and the public’s sense of community and civic pride.



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Creating Great Town Centers and Urban Villages
What are the factors that make a town center stand out and not just another outdoor shopping area? Packed with color photographs, site plans,and case studies of top new projects and classics that have endured the test of time, this book gives you the inside story and the details on how they were developed, what makes them special, and provides facts you can’t get anywhere else on costs, rents, land uses, and more.

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Global Demographics 2008: Shaping Real Estate's Future
Essential for identifying opportunities and developing strategic plans, this book looks at demographic trends in global markets. See how aging, household size, the labor force, income levels, and more will impact the underlying demand for real estate and other products. The first volume in an annual series, this edition, while global in coverage, focuses on North and South America. Themes include aging, tourism, urbanization, and migration and the implications for real estate.

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Dollars and Cents of Shopping Centers/The SCORE 2008
This data-packed volume provides authoritative, objective income and expense data from hundreds of centers in the United States and Canada. Packed with reports, the book covers open-air and enclosed centers, organized by size; tracks income and expenses for convenience, neighborhood, community, regional, and super-regional centers; provides reports by region, center types, and age; and includes data on centers in urban, suburban, and rural locations. Also included are data on retail tenants: eight categories of sales, income, and expense data drawn from over 20,000 stores.

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ULI Experts
ULI  has seven senior resident fellows who specialize in public policy, retail/urban entertainment, transportation/infrastructure, housing, real estate finance, environmental issues, and urban development.

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J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing
The J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing was created in February 2007. Established by Chairman and CEO of Trammell Crow Residential and former ULI Chairman J. Ronald Terwilliger, the Center is addressing one of the most critical issues facing this country by supporting the development of housing affordable to moderate-income workers, including teachers, nurses, firefighters, government workers, and police officers.

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Customized Research
The ULI Customized Research Center’s professionally trained staff is available to assist you with your unique information needs. We have access to information you can’t get anywhere else, plus magazines, books, government reports, specialized databases, and Web sources that provide the most current information available on a wide range of real estate- and business-related topics. In addition, when necessary, industry experts can be consulted.

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