Sustainable Development
ULI Senior Resident Fellows Update: Finding Certainty in Uncertain Times
This report is a collection of commentaries from ULI’s five senior resident fellows Stephen Blank, Edward McMahon, John McIlwain, Thomas Murphy and Michael Horst, examines trends in population growth, consumer housing preferences, employment, real estate finance, environmental conservation, energy efficiency, venture capital investment and public leadership. These factors are converging to shape a new era of urban economics within which cities and urban regions will have to compete in order to be successful in the 21st century.
Climate Change, Land Use, and Energy 2010: New Tools. New Rules
The 2010 CLUE report explores an issue that has risen to become one of the most immediate challenges for sustainable development: investing in energy efficiency improvements in existing real estate. New regulations and finance tools are emerging which seek to capture value associated with energy efficiency in commercial buildings. This report includes stories from the “retrofitting” trenches, prevailing attitudes, and case studies that provide a benchmark for how energy efficiency is valued in real estate transactions today. Emerging energy and climate change policies are identified at all levels of government which taken together are forming a new backdrop for real estate investment.
SB 375 Impact Analysis Report
This report examines the potential effects of California Senate Bill 375 on the economic future for the state and the quality of life for its residents. In particular, the report analyzes the law’s mandate for a new regional land use plan, Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS), which calls for more coordinated and efficient development patterns that can accommodate all types of land uses. The law requires regional transportation plans (RTPs) to include such strategies to encourage better alignment of land use, transportation, and housing planning.
Climate Change, Land Use, and Energy (CLUE) 2009: Investment Niche or Necessity?
This report concentrates on the real estate investment community’s outlook, preferences, and business practices associated with climate change, land use, and energy. This publication has been researched through a ULI member survey, a dedicated ULI conference, and a review of the existing literature.
Climate, Land Use, and Energy (CLUE) Advisory Group Findings Report
At the 2007 ULI Fall Meeting in Las Vegas, the Trustees directed Chairman Todd Mansfield to form an Advisory Group to study and advise on the issues of climate change and energy and how ULI as an organization might best engage in these issues. The Climate, Land Use and Energy (CLUE) Advisory Group is made up of a diverse body of ULI members who span the fields of finance, investment, development, design and the insurance industries. This report, presented at the 2008 ULI Fall Meeting and Urban Land Expo in Miami, explores how the issues of rising energy costs and global climate change should inform ULI's ongoing activities, including how these issues might impact the industry at-large and how they are changing the day-to-day practice of land use and urban development.
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.
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.
Green Buildings and Sustainable Development: Making the Business Case
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.
Sustainable Development and Green Building
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.