Population growth and a market playing catch-up to meet pent-up demand threaten the region’s affordability, according to a panel of mayors from the Twin Cities that kicked off the 2015 ULI Housing Opportunity Conference in Minneapolis.
Designing more human-centered communities requires “moving beyond intentions of what we hope to create to finding ways to actually engage with people [in order] to get there,” said designer and architect Liz Ogbu, speaking at ULI’s Housing Opportunity Conference in Minneapolis last week.
Small-scale manufacturers, members of the so-called “maker movement,” are taking over and re-purposing aging commercial properties, injecting new energy and life into urban industrial neighborhoods.
ULI Philippines recently kicked of its Resilient and Healthy Bonifacio Global City initiative, which intends to highlight ways this rapidly-growing commercial district in Manila can be more resilient after climate impacts and prioritize the health and well-being of its workforce.
Preparing for more frequent and intense storms, wildfires, or droughts as well as for incremental rises in sea levels and water temperatures can no longer be ignored in favor of cost cutting and short-term returns, according to a panel of sustainability experts at the 2015 Spring Meeting in Houston.
