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Urban Land Europe
Winter 2006

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In This Issue
  • Agreeing Terms
    Nowadays, it is more widely understood that the term sustainability has broader implications than merely making building designs more energy efficient, and that the concept of sustainability can be applied much more extensively than to single buildings and their energy use.
  • Argent Shows Its Mettle
    Developer Argent Estates has launched its 23,225-square-metre (250,000-square-foot) office building, Three Piccadilly Place, part of the mixed-use Piccadilly Place development in Manchester, U.K.
  • Bubble Trouble?
    Dubai weighs up demand and supply and asks what the future holds.
  • Cool to Be Square
    Urban focus the old-fashioned way.
  • Destination Duisburg
    Duisburg is a German city of more than 500,000 people located close to Düsseldorf in the North Rhine–Westphalia region.
  • Flights of Fancy
    The privatisation of European flag-carrying airlines has led to rationalisation, alliances, and increased competition.
  • Garanti Launches Power Concept
    Turkish bank subsidiary Garanti REIC has started work on the first power centre in Turkey, based completely on pre-lettings to large space users. The project, Do˘gus¸ Power Centre, is being constructed in the business district of Maslak, Istanbul, and will have a lettable area of 33,000 square metres (355,220 square feet).
  • Germany in Focus
    The level of interest in the German real estate market was demonstrated by attendance at the German Focus Evening, organised by the U.K. Executive Committee in October.
  • Housing the New Europeans
    Forty years of Soviet-influenced housing development in central and eastern Europe could prove to be one of the EU’s bigger challenges.
  • Immobilia’s New Fashion Street
    Hungarian developer Immobilia Rt has gained control of an entire street of shops in central Budapest and is redeveloping the ground floors of the mainly period buildings to create a specialised area called Fashion Street.
  • Leaders Recognised
    ULI Germany presented its first-ever Leadership Awards at real estate exhibition Expo Real, held in Munich in October. The awards stemmed from the idea that every project has an individual who passionately drives it from beginning to end.
  • Milestones
    It is hard to believe that this month will mark our tenth Finance, Investment, and Development Conference in Paris. Much has happened in the decade since the first one. At this year’s conference, we will look back to see what lessons can be learned from the past ten years and, more important, what they mean for the next ten.
  • Real Estate Remedy
    Property damage is a hallmark of natural disasters. Can the real estate industry mitigate the misery?
  • Sustainable Solutions
    As “sustainability” increases in breadth, designing for it becomes more complex.
  • ULE Winter 2006 Cover
  • ULE Winter 2006 TOC
  • What Awaits as Germany Turns the Corner?
    Real estate sector assesses impact of coalition policies.
  • What Makes a City Sustainable?
    Benchmarking the sustainability performance of London, New York, and Tokyo could provide some of the answers.
  • Young Bloods Spoil the Game
    How helpful would a 90-day economic shock be to the European property industry? This was just one of the topics debated at the inaugural ULI Europe Capital Markets Forum, held in London in November.
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