"Growing by Choice or Chance" South Carolina Quality Growth Initiative Makes Recommendations to State
A report from the ULI/SCREC South Carolina Quality Growth Initiative’s Statewide Committee State Strategies for Quality Growth in South Carolina. 

Corporate Location and Smart Growth
Focuses on whether companies’ real estate needs can be met in settings that are consistent with smart growth. 

Environment and Development: Myth and Fact
Tackles widespread misconceptions about the effects of development on the environment by countering eight common myths about environmentally sensitive development, including profitability; the impact of high-density projects; the effect of large lot sizes, growth boundaries and restrictions, and zoning and land use regulations; and the compatibility of development with environmental protection. 

Greenfield Development Without Sprawl: The Role of Planned Communities, A ULI Working Paper on Land Use Policy and Practice
Second in a series of papers by noted authors on land use policy and practice issues, this working paper by Jim Heid reflects his thoughts on a model for applying smart growth principles in suburban greenfields and the role of planned communities in a regional greenfield strategy. 

Growing Cooler: Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
This new book documents how key changes in land development patterns could help reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. Based on a comprehensive review of dozens of studies by leading urban planning researchers, the book concludes that urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it. The authors make the case that one of the best ways to reduce vehicle travel is compact development: building places in which people can get from one place to another without driving. This includes developments with a mix of uses and pedestrian-friendly designs. 

Higher Density Development: Myth and Fact
This is the sixth in a series of publications designed to dispel myths and offer good examples on issues related to growth and land use. It addresses common myths surrounding density. 

Market Mechanisms for Protecting Open Space
ULI/National Recreation Foundation Policy Forum on Open-Space Preservation 

Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Mito y Realidad  

National Roundtable on Smart Growth Policy and Practice 
Considers ways to link land use and transportation and how they can contribute to smart growth. Issues dealt with include the lack of coordination between state-level transportation infrastructure decisions and local land use developments, challenges to transportation planning posed by federal Clean Air Act compliance. 

Putting the Pieces Together
A set of recommendations to improve the economic and social well-being of California’s communities through better growth patterns. The report is the culmination of 18 months of analysis produced by a diverse public-private coalition organized by the ULI to find ways to curb haphazard, ill-planned sprawling development, and promote development that more closely links housing to jobs and preserves open space. 

Smart Growth on the Fringe 
Report of the ULI/Joseph C. Canizaro Public Officials’ Forum (May 2004). 

Smart Growth Transportation for Suburban Greenfields 
Considers the question of how the smart growth principle of expanding travel choices can be applied in emerging growth areas on the fringes of metropolitan development. 

Smart Growth: Myth and Fact
Dealing with misconceptions about smart growth? Smart Growth: Myth and Fact investigates eight common myths and counters them with data and examples of development and public policies that work. Seeking to elevate the level of discussion, rather than offer pat solutions, the author covers common misconceptions regarding growth, government regulations, project costs, mass transit, marketability, and more. 

Ten Principles for Developing Successful Town Centers
The Urban Land Institute convened a smart growth workshop June 26–28, 2006, in Washington, D.C., to distill ten principles for developing successful suburban town centers. During three days of intensive study, a team of planning and development experts drawn from around the United States toured and studied three very different town centers in northern Virginia: Market Common, Clarendon in Arlington; Fairfax Corner in Fairfax; and Reston Town Center in Reston. This report presents the results of ULI’s workshop, including a definition of town centers and ten principles for creating them. 

Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail
How do you turn a decaying urban retail strip into a vital commercial area? Based on the recommendations of 15 experts in development, design, feasibility, and planning, this booklet will help you identify the key issues that neighborhood streets face, determine the most effective ways to rebuild them and ensure their long-term competitive position, and set strategic principles to guide the community, public planners, retailers, and developers. 

Ten Principles for Reinventing America's Suburban Business Districts
How can you change a sprawling suburban business district into an attractive, economically thriving community? This new booklet describes ten principles that include analyzing the market, developing support, making a strategic plan, mixing uses, creating a pedestrian-friendly place, managing parking, and allowing for evolution. Ideal for generating support from citizens and public officials. 

Ten Principles for Reinventing America's Suburban Strips
The demands of today's consumer, retail formats, and economy are challenging the status quo in suburban strip development. Based on a study conducted by a team of planning and development experts, this pamphlet identifies the critical issues and challenges that strips face and provides an action plan to reinvent them to ensure their long term competitive position. Developers and communities throughout the nation will find this guide an invaluable starting point for creating strategies that fully harness the tremendous market potential of suburban strips. 

Ten Principles for Smart Growth on the Suburban Fringe 
This 42 page report is the result of a series of events, including a forum for public officials and a separate workshop, both in Washington, D.C., and a conference in La Jolla, Calif., held by ULI to examine development in the greenfields and solutions for better growth in the suburbs. 

The Benefits of Growth
This ULI Working Paper closely examines the benefits of growth, offers insights into how to promote smart growth, better manage the impacts of growth, and respond to local resistance. 

The Practice of Conservation Development: Lessons in Success
Explores conservation development and how it can be used as a tool for land conservation, particularly in rural and exurban settings. 

Water and the Future of Land Development
Considers the issue of water availability and its potential impacts on land development throughout the United States. Examines the availability of sustainable levels of water and how to interpret the land use and real estate implications of water availability.