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Each year, ULI hosts several
policy forums on such topics as smart growth, housing, transportation,
and urban development. These forums are an opportunity for experts from
the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to discuss important land use
and real estate issues and to recommend steps for ULI, policy makers,
and practitioners.
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| Just Published Reports |
Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage
Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage provides a snapshot of current and planned infrastructure investment in a variety of categories across the globe, with an in-depth look at the United States, China, Japan, India and Europe. The second annual report also touches on the infrastructure needs in several of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, highlighting the consequences of inadequate federal policy and guidelines that have resulted in “a mish-mash of disconnected regional infrastructure management approaches.”
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Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing (pdf)
Community Catalyst Report Number 7—Based on a forum of experts and practitioners, this report examines the challenges to the widespread implementation of green building practices and provides recommendations to make it easier and more cost-efficient for both for-profit and not-for-profit developers to build affordable housing that is environmentally sustainable. Green affordable housing projects in Washington,D.C., southern California, Seattle, and New York City are profiled.
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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.
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| Urban Community Issues |
Community Development Corporations Working with For-Profit Developers (pdf file)
Cosponsored with the National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED). Explores the potential for partnerships between CDCs and for-profit developers, including how for-profit developers and CDCs have collaborated;what each brings to this type of effort; good models of CDC/for-profit developer partnerships; lessons learned; and how ULI and NCCED can foster partnerships between CDCs and for-profit developers.
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Compact Development: Changing the Rules to Make It Happen (pdf)
Community Catalyst Report Number 6—In June of 2006, ULI–the Urban Land Institute and NMHC–the National Multi Housing Council held four forums on compact development and ways in which communities can update their development regulations to encourage compact development in appropriate locations. Billed as “Compact Development: Building a Better Toolkit” and held in four cities—Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, and Atlanta—these forums elicited an extraordinary response. Record numbers of invitees accepted the invitation and contributed many valuable thoughts and much information, which we have tried to capture in this report.
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Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing (pdf)
Community Catalyst Report Number 7—Based on a forum of experts and practitioners, this report examines the challenges to the widespread implementation of green building practices and provides recommendations to make it easier and more cost-efficient for both for-profit and not-for-profit developers to build affordable housing that is environmentally sustainable. Green affordable housing projects in Washington,D.C., southern California, Seattle, and New York City are profiled.
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Involving the Community in Neighborhood Planning (PDF file)
Community Catalyst Report Number 1—Neighborhood planning on a comprehensive level can help residents and business owners identify their community’s priorities, plan for the long term, and ensure the consistency of their community’s goals with those of the larger city. Participants at the 2004 ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues (September 22–23, 2004) identified seven key principles for successful collaborative neighborhood planning and reviewed some examples of neighborhood planning practice.
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Managing Gentrification (pdf)
Community Catalyst Report Number 5—Participants in the 2006 ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues considered the many ramifications of gentrification and its relationship not only to housing but also to jobs, transportation, and education. They agreed that gentrification can be anticipated and managed—with careful planning and community involvement, strategic public policy, and informed local leaders and developers.
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Parks, People, and Places: Making Parks Accessible to the Community
Community Catalyst Report Number 4—Participants in the 2005 ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues examined many strategies for successful parks, considered how to make parks accessible to the community, and identified a number of essential principles for parks, people, and places.
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Translating a Regional Vision into Action (PDF file)
Community Catalyst Report Number 2—At the ULI policy forum held on March 8, 2005, participants examined several case studies and distilled the lessons learned into ten broad principles for visioning implementation success. Specific recommendations were then developed in five topic areas: funding; leadership; tools and technical assistance; communications and media; and documentation and dissemination of best practices. While these recommendations are not exhaustive, they do represent the latest thinking of the experts assembled at the forum and offer a variety of new ideas for visioning implementation practitioners.
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| Urban Revitalization |
Barriers and Solutions to Land Assembly for Infill Development (pdf file)
The report of an Urban Land Institute forum about “Barriers and Solutions to Land Assembly for Infill Development.” The report identifies and discusses significant public, regulatory, and market-based barriers to land assembly and infill development, and suggests strategies for overcoming them.
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The Future of Cities (pdf file)
Explores the impact of the September 11 attacks on the future of cities. Where people will live, work, and play in the 21st century, and how to restore confidence in cities.
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| Housing: Affordable and Infill |
Best Practices in the Production of Affordable Housing (PDF file)
Community Catalyst Report Number 3—Best Practices in Producing Affordable Housing, a ULI/Fannie Mae Foundation Policy Forum held in Washington, D.C., on March 29 and
30, 2005, was sponsored by the Fannie Mae Foundation to identify and
explore current best practices and learn from companies that are doing an
exemplary job of providing affordable housing. In addition, the two-day
forum sought to identify the major barriers to the production of such
housing. The ultimate goal is a systems change that facilitates the
production of affordable housing on a broader scale.
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Challenges to Developing Workforce Housing (pdf file)
Examines the barriers and shortage of housing that is affordable to moderate-income households, especially in urban areas.
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Encouraging Workforce Housing in the Chicago Region, Atlanta, and the District of Columbia (pdf file)
ULI, with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), assisted three cities in 2000 through 2003—Chicago, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.—in developing and implementing strategies for producing new private-market housing that is affordable to workforce households. The purpose of this project was to provide each city with information and practical assistance that would help it take specific actions to overcome barriers to the production of more affordable housing. This report describes how the project has been implemented in each city, what each city has accomplished to date, and what has been learned that may be applicable to other cities seeking to increase their supply of workforce housing.
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Engaging the Private Sector in HOPE VI (pdf file)
To better understand the specifics of private-sector experience with mixed-finance, mixed-income development, the Urban Land Institute prepared case studies of six HUD-financed, mixed-finance public housing redevelopment projects, five of which involve the use of HOPE VI revitalization grant funds.
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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.
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Housing for Moderate-Income Households in the European Union and the United States (pdf file)
The 2003 ULI European Land Use Policy Forum considered the issue of access to housing for moderate-income households among countries in the western European Union.
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Housing in the 21st Century (pdf file)
Examines prevailing trends and their implications for the future of housing and communities during the first part of the 21st century.
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Mixed-Income Housing: Myth and Fact (pdf file)
This is the fifth in a series of publications designed to dispel myths and offer good examples on issues related to growth and land use. It tackles some of the more challenging and complicated aspects of providing housing that is accessible to households with a variety of income levels.
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National Forum on Encouraging Market-Rate Infill Housing Development (pdf file)
Examines the obstacles to, and opportunities for, developing market-rate, infill housing in the nation's cities and older suburban neighborhoods.
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Principles for Temporary Communities (PDF)
The effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 have made it clear how critical it is to have a plan in place—before disaster strikes. Whether natural—such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes—or manmade, all disasters can wreak havoc in your community and leave survivors homeless for days, months, even years.
Based on ULI's extensive experience in documenting how communities are built, this booklet will help you develop an advance plan for temporary shelter that will assist evacuees during crisis, and get them back on their feet with due speed in the days that follow.
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Sustaining Urban Mixed-Income Communities (pdf file)
Examines how community facilities, such as schools, community centers, or job-training centers, can support and sustain mixed-income communities.
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Ten Principles for Developing Affordable Housing
Ten Principles for Developing Affordable Housing seeks to help those who wish to develop housing for low- and moderate-income households understand what it takes to make affordable housing projects happen. It also seeks to help policy makers and community leaders understand the principles behind the production of affordable housing. It is hoped that this understanding will lead to the creation of effective affordable housing policies and programs and to the fostering of a climate that is more supportive of the development of affordable housing.
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The Case for Multifamily Housing (pdf)
This publication addresses some of the common concerns about multifamily housing and discusses some of the advantages this type of housing can offer. Its purpose is to provide factual information to citizen groups, public officials, members of the development community, and others.
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ULI Residential Summit (pdf file)
Examines U.S. demographics and an in-depth discussion by summit participants of housing trends across the country. Participants discussed the impact the increase in population, immigration, and homeownership, as well as other factors, will have on the housing industry.
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ULI/NMHC/AIA Joint Forum on Housing Density (pdf file)
Considers the challenge local opposition poses to high-density housing developments.
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Urban Infill Housing: Myth and Fact (pdf file)
Urban infill development can spark neighborhood revitalization, attract tax-paying citizens, and generate superior financial returns. Developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this booklet addresses eight common misconceptions about urban infill housing development and dispels them with facts. Examples of successful projects and policies are included to illustrate what has worked for others.
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Workforce Housing: Barriers, Solutions, and Model Programs (pdf file)
Examines the barriers to the construction of housing that is affordable to moderate-income households and outlines potential solutions as well as model programs that have been enacted throughout the United States.
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| Finance |
Capitalizing on the New Markets Tax Credit (pdf file)
In October 2003, ULI convened in Chicago the third annual ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues. A group of 32 real estate development professionals from private, public, and nonprofit sectors gathered at the day-and-a-half-long forum to discuss the new federal tax credit designed to make more money available for business development in low- and moderate-income communities by attacting private sector investment.
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Financing Urban Infrastructure (PDF file)
At the 2004 ULI Fall Meeting in New York City, Richard Baron, winner of ULI’s J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, made a compelling case for the need to address the urgent problem of deteriorating infrastructure in weak-market cities—those with little job or population growth. In response to Baron’s call, experts were assembled at a forum in Washington, D.C., in April 2005 to start ULI on the track of examining the problem, finding solutions for how to finance infrastructure for these weak-market cities, and beginning the process of implementing those solutions. This is a report of their recommendations.
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Special Report Understanding REIT Investing
Addresses some of the more frequently asked questions by investors considering REIT (real estate investment trust) securities.
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| Smart Growth |
"Growing by Choice or Chance" South Carolina Quality Growth Initiative Makes Recommendations to State (pdf file)
A report from the ULI/SCREC South Carolina Quality Growth Initiative’s Statewide Committee State Strategies for Quality Growth in South Carolina.
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Corporate Location and Smart Growth (pdf file)
Focuses on whether companies’ real estate needs can be met in settings that are consistent with smart growth.
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Environment and Development: Myth and Fact (pdf file)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Market Mechanisms for Protecting Open Space (pdf file)
ULI/National Recreation Foundation Policy Forum on Open-Space Preservation
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Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Mito y Realidad (pdf file)
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National Roundtable on Smart Growth Policy and Practice (pdf file)
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.
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Putting the Pieces Together (pdf file)
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.
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Smart Growth on the Fringe (pdf file)
Report of the ULI/Joseph C. Canizaro Public Officials’ Forum (May 2004).
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Smart Growth Transportation for Suburban Greenfields (pdf file)
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.
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Smart Growth: Myth and Fact (pdf file)
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.
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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.
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Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail (pdf file)
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.
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Ten Principles for Reinventing America's Suburban Business Districts (pdf file)
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.
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Ten Principles for Reinventing America's Suburban Strips (pdf file)
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.
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Ten Principles for Smart Growth on the Suburban Fringe (pdf file)
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.
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The Benefits of Growth (pdf file)
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.
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The Practice of Conservation Development: Lessons in Success (pdf file)
Explores conservation development and how it can be used as a tool for land conservation, particularly in rural and exurban settings.
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Water and the Future of Land Development (pdf file)
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.
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Green Buildings and Sustainable Development: Making the Business Case (pdf file)
In August 2003, the Urban Land Institute convened a panel of 25 experts in Aspen, Colorado, to discuss the topic, “Green Buildings and Sustainable Development: Making the Business Case.” Participants represented a range of professions including real estate development, architecture and landscape architecture, academia, the business community, and organizations that support sustainable development such as ULI and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The forum identified the obstacles that interfere with wider acceptance of green buildings and focused on how the business case for these buildings can be made more effectively, particularly to the commercial real estate community.
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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.
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Sustainable Development and Green Building (pdf file)
On March 30, 2004, at the national headquarters of the AIA in Washington, D.C., ULI held a daylong forum--the outgrowth of an earlier forum held in August 2003 in Aspen, Colorado. The goal of both forums was to bring together stakeholders from every sector of the real estate and land development industry to discuss green building and sustainable development practices. This report outlines the best practices of the 22 diverse professionals from that forum.
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Ten Principles for Coastal Development
In creating Ten Principles for Coastal Development, ULI brought together a group of experts for three days to share ideas and inspirations. The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview and guidance for implementing better land use policies and practices along the coast to break the cycle of destructive trends and prevent the degradation of coastal systems as growth and development occur. It also offers opportunities to benefit environmental systems in this process.
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| Transportation: Current Research |
An Exploration of Motor Vehicle Congestion Pricing in New York (pdf file)
This report was prepared for presentation at the Eno Transportation Foundation conference on congestion pricing in New York City, November 3-4, 2003.
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Federal Highway Administration: Influence of Transportation Infrastructure on Land Use
ULI conducted an Advisory Services workshop titled “Location Decision Making: The Role of Transportation Infrastructure.” This report is a summary of the panel’s findings and recommendations.
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Infrastructure 2007: A Global Perspective
This report is based on wide research and four forums that were held in New York, Los Angeles, and Mumbai. These forums brought together experts from the fields of development, design, finance, engineering, and the public sector. The role of infrastructure in the urban form, the current state of infrastructure repair and maintenance, and new financing vehicles were highlighted. Infrastructure 2007: A Global Perspective examines trends in infrastructure and finance and the nexus between infrastructure and the built environment. Our initial goal is to define the problem, outline solutions, inspire leadership, and provide case studies to demonstrate that these goals are achievable. Of critical importance is an increased understanding of the necessary role that must be played by public finance.
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Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage
Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage provides a snapshot of current and planned infrastructure investment in a variety of categories across the globe, with an in-depth look at the United States, China, Japan, India and Europe. The second annual report also touches on the infrastructure needs in several of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, highlighting the consequences of inadequate federal policy and guidelines that have resulted in “a mish-mash of disconnected regional infrastructure management approaches.”
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Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit (pdf file)
Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit can help you understand how to successfully implement development around transit centers, such as bus and rail stations. It includes the following topics: the vision, partnerships, understanding the needs of the developer, parking, creating a sense of place, mixing uses, price points, and taking advantage of changes in corporate culture.
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The Cost of Being Close: Land Values and Housing Prices In Portland's High Tech Corridor
Presents original research on the relationships among transportation, land values, and housing costs using current data from the Portland, Oregon, area. These relationships are of particular significance to policy makers concerned with limiting sprawl while ensuring the availability of affordable housing.
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| Issue Paper Series |
Global Demographics and Their Real Estate Investment Implications (PDF)
A ULI and Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate Issue Paper by M. Leanne Lachman, an executive-in-residence at Columbia Business School and president of Lachman Associates LLC, an independent consulting firm. With several mature economies facing growth reversals and some emerging economies moving rapidly onto the world stage, this paper makes medium- to long-range recommendations for property investment in view of these and other global demographic trends.
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The New Exports: Office Jobs (PDF)
A ULI and Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate Issue Paper by M. Leanne Lachman, executive in residence at Columbia Business School and president of Lachman Associates LLC, an independent consulting firm.
Exportation of office-based service jobs is a popular topic in the press, but little attention has been focused on the implication for America's real estate inventory. This paper explores the major workplace transformation now underway and the real estate effects.
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| Other Topics |
Building Florida's Future: State Strategies for Regional Cooperation (PDF file)
Led by the ULI Florida Statewide Committee, a broad cross section of leaders from the public, private and non-profit sectors, the ULI Florida Initiative on Regional Cooperation has released its report Building Florida's Future: State Strategies for Regional Cooperation. The recommendations, based on fact finding, research and careful listening across the state, recognize the importance for regional approaches and solutions to ensure quality of life and success in the global economy. (www.uli.org/floridaregionalcooperation)
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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.
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Human Capital Survey (pdf file)
Reveals that “real world experience” and a strong entrepreneurial streak continue to dominate hiring and promotion practices in the real estate industry.
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Ins and Outs of Real Estate: Guidelines for Nonprofit Organizations (pdf file)
This report is intended to help nonprofit organizations (NPOs) evaluate the amount of planning required when they consider their real estate needs. Although phyiscal space if often one of the last considerations in the moving process, it is a very important one, because the location, type and size of the space chosen define the organization and affect how efficiently the organization is able to operate. The guidelines offer advice about how a NPO can determine whether leasing or buying is best for the organization and to help NPOs understnad the leasing and buying process.
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Shanghai Urbanisation and EXPO 2010 Forum
ULI convened a forum workshop from 11 to 14 September 2006 to assist the city of Shanghai as it takes its place as a
world-class city. The Institute was invited to assemble an international
team of professionals with relevant experience in urban development around the world to share ideas and best
practices in land use planning and real estate development. The team was specifically asked to address current planning reforms, including the new 1-9-6-6 policy, and to look at the
future potential for the World EXPO 2010 site. This is a report on the findings of the participants in the
forum workshop.
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Spatial Planning for Future Development in the European Union (pdf file)
The 2004 ULI European Land Use Policy Forum explored the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) that was adopted by the European Union (EU) in 1999.
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Ten Principles for Creating Value from Local Government Property
This Ten Principles publication, the first of a new series on local authority property, focuses on local authorities’ operational estates: the buildings from which they co-ordinate and deliver public services. Creating Value from Local Government Property is based on a two-day workshop and numerous case studies. The focus is on best practices for creating value from local government property in the U.K., which is the source of most of the examples. Nevertheless, many of the messages will resonate across continental Europe. The publication takes as its backdrop a number of major themes, such as the interaction between public and private sector partners to achieve an authority’s goals, and the use of technology to help achieve operational efficiencies and greater productivity.
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Ten Principles for Rethinking the Mall
All around the country, both public agencies and private developers are rethinking the role of the shopping mall. The traditional indoor mall is being reinvented to include open-air designs and uses other than retail. They are no longer big fortresses with seas of parking but are being integrated into the surrounding neighborhoods. These ten principles will help you determine how to “rethink” existing mall developments as well as provide guidance when new shopping malls are being developed.
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Ten Principles for Successful Public/Private Partnerships (pdf file)
This publication presents principles to guide community leaders and public officials together with private investors and developers through the development process and highlights best practices from partnerships around the country. The principles endeavor to ensure the most efficient use of public and private resources to implement a wide range of long and short-term projects to revitalize urban and suburban communities.
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About ULI Community Catalyst Reports
ULI Community Catalyst Reports are intended to make the findings and
recommendations of ULI land use policy forums relevant—accessible
to and useful for practitioners at the community level where land use
decisions are made and their consequences most directly felt. Community
Catalyst Reports can be downloaded free of charge from ULI’s Web
site here or ordered in bulk at a nominal cost from ULI’s
bookstore (800-321-5011; www.uli.org/bookstore).
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Involving the Community in Neighborhood Planning (PDF file)
Community Catalyst Report Number 1—Neighborhood planning on a comprehensive level can help residents and business owners identify their community’s priorities, plan for the long term, and ensure the consistency of their community’s goals with those of the larger city. Participants at the 2004 ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues (September 22–23, 2004) identified seven key principles for successful collaborative neighborhood planning and reviewed some examples of neighborhood planning practice.
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Translating a Regional Vision into Action (PDF file)
Community Catalyst Report Number 2—At the ULI policy forum held on March 8, 2005, participants examined several case studies and distilled the lessons learned into ten broad principles for visioning implementation success. Specific recommendations were then developed in five topic areas: funding; leadership; tools and technical assistance; communications and media; and documentation and dissemination of best practices. While these recommendations are not exhaustive, they do represent the latest thinking of the experts assembled at the forum and offer a variety of new ideas for visioning implementation practitioners.
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Best Practices in the Production of Affordable Housing (PDF file)
Community Catalyst Report Number 3—Best Practices in Producing Affordable Housing, a ULI/Fannie Mae Foundation Policy Forum held in Washington, D.C., on March 29 and
30, 2005, was sponsored by the Fannie Mae Foundation to identify and
explore current best practices and learn from companies that are doing an
exemplary job of providing affordable housing. In addition, the two-day
forum sought to identify the major barriers to the production of such
housing. The ultimate goal is a systems change that facilitates the
production of affordable housing on a broader scale.
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Parks, People, and Places: Making Parks Accessible to the Community
Community Catalyst Report Number 4—Participants in the 2005 ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues examined many strategies for successful parks, considered how to make parks accessible to the community, and identified a number of essential principles for parks, people, and places.
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Managing Gentrification (pdf)
Community Catalyst Report Number 5—Participants in the 2006 ULI/Charles H. Shaw Forum on Urban Community Issues considered the many ramifications of gentrification and its relationship not only to housing but also to jobs, transportation, and education. They agreed that gentrification can be anticipated and managed—with careful planning and community involvement, strategic public policy, and informed local leaders and developers.
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Compact Development: Changing the Rules to Make It Happen (pdf)
Community Catalyst Report Number 6—In June of 2006, ULI–the Urban Land Institute and NMHC–the National Multi Housing Council held four forums on compact development and ways in which communities can update their development regulations to encourage compact development in appropriate locations. Billed as “Compact Development: Building a Better Toolkit” and held in four cities—Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, and Atlanta—these forums elicited an extraordinary response. Record numbers of invitees accepted the invitation and contributed many valuable thoughts and much information, which we have tried to capture in this report.
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Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing (pdf)
Community Catalyst Report Number 7—Based on a forum of experts and practitioners, this report examines the challenges to the widespread implementation of green building practices and provides recommendations to make it easier and more cost-efficient for both for-profit and not-for-profit developers to build affordable housing that is environmentally sustainable. Green affordable housing projects in Washington,D.C., southern California, Seattle, and New York City are profiled.
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| Myth and Fact Booklets |
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.
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Mixed-Income Housing: Myth and Fact (pdf file)
This is the fifth in a series of publications designed to dispel myths and offer good examples on issues related to growth and land use. It tackles some of the more challenging and complicated aspects of providing housing that is accessible to households with a variety of income levels.
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Smart Growth: Myth and Fact (pdf file)
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.
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Urban Infill Housing: Myth and Fact (pdf file)
Urban infill development can spark neighborhood revitalization, attract tax-paying citizens, and generate superior financial returns. Developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, this booklet addresses eight common misconceptions about urban infill housing development and dispels them with facts. Examples of successful projects and policies are included to illustrate what has worked for others.
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| Ten Principles Booklets |
Principles for Temporary Communities (PDF)
The effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 have made it clear how critical it is to have a plan in place—before disaster strikes. Whether natural—such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes—or manmade, all disasters can wreak havoc in your community and leave survivors homeless for days, months, even years.
Based on ULI's extensive experience in documenting how communities are built, this booklet will help you develop an advance plan for temporary shelter that will assist evacuees during crisis, and get them back on their feet with due speed in the days that follow.
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Ten Principles for Coastal Development
In creating Ten Principles for Coastal Development, ULI brought together a group of experts for three days to share ideas and inspirations. The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview and guidance for implementing better land use policies and practices along the coast to break the cycle of destructive trends and prevent the degradation of coastal systems as growth and development occur. It also offers opportunities to benefit environmental systems in this process.
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Ten Principles for Creating Value from Local Government Property
This Ten Principles publication, the first of a new series on local authority property, focuses on local authorities’ operational estates: the buildings from which they co-ordinate and deliver public services. Creating Value from Local Government Property is based on a two-day workshop and numerous case studies. The focus is on best practices for creating value from local government property in the U.K., which is the source of most of the examples. Nevertheless, many of the messages will resonate across continental Europe. The publication takes as its backdrop a number of major themes, such as the interaction between public and private sector partners to achieve an authority’s goals, and the use of technology to help achieve operational efficiencies and greater productivity.
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Ten Principles for Developing Affordable Housing
Ten Principles for Developing Affordable Housing seeks to help those who wish to develop housing for low- and moderate-income households understand what it takes to make affordable housing projects happen. It also seeks to help policy makers and community leaders understand the principles behind the production of affordable housing. It is hoped that this understanding will lead to the creation of effective affordable housing policies and programs and to the fostering of a climate that is more supportive of the development of affordable housing.
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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.
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Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail (pdf file)
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.
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Ten Principles for Reinventing America's Suburban Business Districts (pdf file)
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.
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Ten Principles for Reinventing America's Suburban Strips (pdf file)
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.
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Ten Principles for Rethinking the Mall
All around the country, both public agencies and private developers are rethinking the role of the shopping mall. The traditional indoor mall is being reinvented to include open-air designs and uses other than retail. They are no longer big fortresses with seas of parking but are being integrated into the surrounding neighborhoods. These ten principles will help you determine how to “rethink” existing mall developments as well as provide guidance when new shopping malls are being developed.
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Ten Principles for Smart Growth on the Suburban Fringe (pdf file)
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.
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Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit (pdf file)
Ten Principles for Successful Development Around Transit can help you understand how to successfully implement development around transit centers, such as bus and rail stations. It includes the following topics: the vision, partnerships, understanding the needs of the developer, parking, creating a sense of place, mixing uses, price points, and taking advantage of changes in corporate culture.
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Ten Principles for Successful Public/Private Partnerships (pdf file)
This publication presents principles to guide community leaders and public officials together with private investors and developers through the development process and highlights best practices from partnerships around the country. The principles endeavor to ensure the most efficient use of public and private resources to implement a wide range of long and short-term projects to revitalize urban and suburban communities.
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About ULI Current Issues Reports
This is the first in a series of Current Issues Reports to be
published from time to time as important topics are identified and
addressed by ULI. These reports can be downloaded free of charge from
ULI’s Web site here or ordered from the ULI bookstore as single
copies or in packets of ten by calling 800-321-5011 or
visiting www.uli.org/bookstore.
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Eminent Domain: An Important Tool for Community Revitalization
This report represents the conclusions of a ULI policy forum on eminent domain convened at ULI offices in Washington, D.C., during July 2006 at which leading public and private sector experts and practitioners discussed the significant role eminent domain plays in promoting urban revitalization.
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About ULI
ULI
2007 Annual Report
Somehow, the typical measures found in a corporate annual report, the
dollars and cents of a balance sheet, don’t quite measure up when
it comes to evaluating the Urban Land Institute. As ULI member Isaac
Manning recently explained to a Dallas Business Journal reporter,
ULI “consists of people from around the world who come together to
tell you what they’ve been doing right and what they’ve been
doing wrong,” he said. “It’s an open-book type
organization.” Our annual report measures ULI’s value
through its shareholders, 35,000 members. ULI is really measured by how
we affect what our members do every day in their professional practices
and in their community, notes Richard Rosan, ULI president. In this
annual report, you will find a few stories that illustrate the value of
the work done by ULI.
ULI Real Estate Practice and Land Use Policy Agenda for
2007 (PDF file)
Summarizes ULI’s policy and practice program and its work on
significant subjects affecting the real estate community in a variety of
formats—books, papers, conferences, online columns, workshops,
courses, and forums.
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