The handbook, written by ULI/Citistates Summit participant Pablo Vaggione of Design Convergence, provides leaders and decision-makers with a framework for decision-making around best practices in urban planning. …Continue Reading
Neal Peirce, chairman of the Citistates Group, reports from the World Urban Forum in Naples. …Continue Reading
The University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research, co-chaired by Eugenie Birch, the Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research, co-chair of the World Urban Campaign, and ULI/Citistates Summit presenter, has launched a new research forum dedicated to disseminating the latest scholarly work on urbanism and sustainability. …Continue Reading
ULI Chief Executive Officer Patrick Phillips joined a panel of international experts in China to advise local and national stakeholders about addressing major urban development challenges confronting the city of Tianjin, including rapid urbanization. The meeting was held concurrently in Tianjin with the WEF’s Summer Davos gathering of business, government and civil society leaders, and Phillips engaged in a number of other sessions important to ULI’s members….Continue Reading
ULI’s strategic partner in Singapore, the Centre for Liveable Cities, recently convened its annual international Cities Summit keynoted by ULI’s CEO Patrick Phillips and honoring New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg. …Continue Reading
Mahim Maher, the City Editor for the Express Tribune in Karachi, Pakistan writes about Nicholas You’s presentation on urban water infrastructure and how those global issues might affect Karachi in a column on August 23, 2012….Continue Reading
Neal Peirce, chairman of the Citistates Group, reports from the ULI/Citistates Summit at the Bellagio Center….Continue Reading
It is a distinct pleasure for me to be here this evening—and I would like to begin by expressing my renewed and deep thanks to the Urban Land Institute for presenting to me the J.C. Nichols prize at your 75th anniversary conference last Fall. I was particularly honoured to learn that this was one of the first times a non-American had been given this award, a reflection of the increasingly global nature of your concerns….Continue Reading
On July 29th, ULI and the Citistates Group hosted a week-long summit at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center on rapid urbanization in global cities, with a particular focus on infrastructure planning and investment…Continue Reading
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is partnering with The Citistates Group to host a Global Metropolitan Summit at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Italy July 30 through August 3, 2012 to explore urban growth issues related to the rapid urbanization of fast-growing metropolitan markets throughout the world….Continue Reading