About Urban Land
Urban Land is the magazine of the Urban Land Institute and a leading source of independent journalism on real estate, land use, and development—connecting industry leaders to the ideas, policies, and projects shaping the built environment, in print and online.
Urban Land reaches the professionals who shape development outcomes across real estate, land use, and the built environment. The magazine delivers independent journalism and practitioner insight for senior leaders in development, finance, planning, design, and the public sector, serving a global audience engaged in real decisions about projects, policy, and capital.
Its editorial focus is on how development actually happens—where capital, regulation, design, and community priorities intersect. Through reporting, analysis, and case-based insight, the magazine provides practical context that helps industry leaders evaluate risk, understand market and policy shifts, and make informed long-term decisions.
Our Audience
Urban Land connects weekly with more than 100,000 newsletter subscribers, anchored by ULI’s 40,000 members and a global audience of developers, investors, lenders, planners, designers, academics, and public-sector leaders.
Readers turn to Urban Land for practical, case-driven insight:
- Development feasibility and finance
- Housing, infrastructure, and urban policy
- Market shifts, risk, and capital allocation
- Best practices in responsible, resilient, and sustainable land use
For advertisers and sponsors, Urban Land offers a high-trust editorial environment aligned with thoughtful professional engagement.
Urban Land Weekly Newsletter
This Week in Urban Land is a curated weekly digest of Urban Land’s original reporting and rigorously edited member insight. Delivered to more than 100,000 subscribers, the newsletter highlights timely, practical perspectives on real estate development, land use, policy, capital, and design—drawing directly from Urban Land’s daily digital coverage.
Designed for practitioners and senior leaders, Urban Land Weekly provides a concise way to stay informed on market shifts, development risk, and best practices shaping the built environment.
Editorial Approach
Urban Land combines professional journalism with rigorously edited practitioner and expert contributions. Approximately half of all content is authored by ULI members and subject-matter specialists, edited to meet journalistic standards of clarity, accuracy, and relevance.
This model supports depth over volume, favoring credibility, real-world experience, and independent analysis over transactional or promotional content.
A Legacy of Insight—and a Platform for What’s Next
Founded in 1941, Urban Land has served as ULI’s flagship publication, documenting how development practice evolves across economic cycles. The magazine has chronicled shifts in land use, urban policy, finance, and design—from postwar expansion to today’s focus on affordability, resilience, equity, and innovation.
That long view informs the magazine’s current coverage, grounding timely analysis in an understanding of how cities and markets change over time.
More about our history:
Urban Land: History of a Practitioner’s Magazine: Part 1: 1941–1969: War and Expansion
Urban Land: History of a Practitioner’s Magazine: Part 2: 1970–1999: Riding the Cycles
Contributors
Urban Land is intentionally collaborative. Member-authored thought leadership is complemented by original reporting and analysis from the editorial team.
Contributors include:
- ULI members and Product Council experts
- Subject-matter specialists from the ULI Impact Lab
- Academics from leading commercial real estate and urban planning programs
- Economists, policy experts, designers, developers, and public-sector leaders
If you would like to contribute to Urban Land, please email [email protected].
ULI Apgar Thought Leader Award
The ULI Apgar Thought Leader Award recognizes clear, well-researched, practitioner-oriented writing published in Urban Land. The biennial award encourages accessible leadership on issues central to responsible land use and development practice, with preference given to emerging voices within the profession.
The award is intended to encourage thoughtful, accessible leadership on issues that exemplify best practices in responsible land use and advance ULI’s mission in cities and communities worldwide. Preference is given to emerging voices—practitioners and experts who are not professional writers or widely recognized authorities—to support the next generation of industry leaders.
The awardee receives a $1,500 honorarium and complimentary registration to a ULI Fall or Spring Meeting.
Editorial & Sales
Urban Land is produced by a dedicated editorial and publishing team within the Urban Land Institute.
Publisher and SVP, Membership and Marketing
Devan Andrzejewski
Editor in Chief
Sibley Fleming
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Managing Editor
Brett Widness
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Business and Advertising
Director of Sales, Urban Land
Kristina Griffin
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