http://urbanland.uli.org/PlanningDesign?rss=trueRSS Feed for ULI Magazine articlesenTen airport designs accommodate modern travel needs and embody their local and regional contexts.http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Jun/NyrenULX20130614151900Bendix AndersonMany trends have converged to create today’s epidemic of obesity and lack of physical fitness, agreed speakers at ULI’s Spring Meeting in San Diego. Real estate developers have the opportunity to contribute to a reversal of at least some of these trends by creating more healthy communities. http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/May/BraunsteinHealthyCommunities20130521145200Leslie BraunsteinTen transit centers exemplify strategies for inserting new facilities and expanding existing ones in a densifying urban landscape. http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Apr/NyrenULXTransit20130502143600Ron NyrenULI has announced the recipients of the 2013 ULI Apgar Urban Land Award, an honor that recognizes industry articles of practical value in Urban Land magazine. Selected articles from the previous calendar year – authored by Jason S. Hellendrung, principal, Urban Studio at Sasaki and Howard J. Kozloff, managing partner, Agora Partners – will both be honored next month at the ULI Spring Meeting in San Diego.http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Apr/KruegerApgar20130429100900Robert KruegerIn 40 years, the U.S. population will grow 36 percent to 438 million in 2050 from 322 million today. At today’s average of 2.58 persons per household, such growth would require 44.9 million new homes. Where and how will the new American homes be built? What urban structures are to be created?http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Apr/PenalosaThirdMillenium20130423143400Enrique PenalosaHow different will land use be in 50 years? While some futurists think suburban tract house and the shopping mall will have gone the way of the dinosaurs, others envision a strikingly different scenario, in which people increasingly will forsake the cities for the rural countryside living in updated, technologically advanced, and economically self-sufficient versions of the 19th-century village.http://urbanland.uli.orghttp://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Apr/KigerLandUse206320130422123500Patrick KigerThe Civita mixed-use development is a model for San Diego’s “City of Villages” planning strategy. But the development’s progressive ideas blazed new territory, and nearly a decade passed before the developer obtained approvals to begin construction. http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Apr/KirkCivita20130419150600Patricia KirkA joint team of graduate students representing Kansas State University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and the University of Kansas has been selected as the winner of the 2013 Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. This three-university team took the $50,000 top prize with their proposed long-term development plan for a downtown Minneapolis site adjacent to the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium location.http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Apr/KruegerHines20130415123100Robert KruegerFunded by the California State Library, Centre City Development, the San Diego Unified School District, and private donors the nine-story library will feature a 350-seat auditorium, three-story domed reading room, 400-seat multipurpose room, and underground parking for 250 vehicles. The sixth and seventh floors will be used as a charter high school, with its own ground-level entrance and lobby, elevators, and stairwell. http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Apr/RazziSanDiegoLibrary20130412162700Elizabeth RazziJust as the cities of today are living with choices made long ago, so should people be aware that today’s decisions and technologies will shape the urban spaces that serve future generations, says Steve Rayner, co­­director of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. http://urbanland.uli.org/Articles/2013/Apr/WalkerRayner20130412161400Peter Walker