Elizabeth Razzi

Elizabeth Razzi served as editor in chief of Urban Land from 2011-2021. She has been a writer and an editor for The Washington Post, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and other publications.

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Development and Construction

The Aga Khan Named 2011 Laureate of J.C. Nichols Prize

His Highness the Aga Khan, leader of the nondenominational Aga Khan Development Network, has been named the 2011 laureate of the ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development.

December 1, 2011

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Elizabeth Razzi

Fall Meeting

Economy, Market & Trends

Seniors Housing

It’s what everone will need, eventually. But what makes some seniors’ housing projects succeed? Panelists at ULI’s Fall Meeting in Los Angeles revealed the key attributes.

November 30, 2011

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Elizabeth Razzi

Fall Meeting

Economy, Market & Trends

Global City Ranking

New York continues to rank first among 35 top global cities ranked by the Mori Memorial Foundation in Japan, with London, Paris, Tokyo, and Singapore rounding out the top five.

November 30, 2011

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Elizabeth Razzi

Capital Markets and Finance

Industry Sectors

Remain Wary, Especially of Leverage

In a day that started with news of European leaders agreeing to a Greek-debt plan, and which would end with the Dow Industrial Index having surged 340 points, some of the industry’s top capital-market experts warned ULI 2011 Fall Meeting attendees to remain wary, especially of leverage. Read what panelists Simon Treacy, Michael G. McGaffrey, Kelvin Davis, Roy Hilton March, and Ron Sturzenegger had to say about capital markets.

November 23, 2011

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Elizabeth Razzi

Fall Meeting

Capital Markets and Finance

Sovereign Debt

Uncertainty about the fate of the euro, and whether some of the continent’s weaker economies will be able to maintain it as their currency, is already an impediment to investment, said one panelist at a session on the implications of the debt crisis for Europe at ULI’s Fall Meeting. Read more to learn why the European sovereign debt problem is seen as being as serious as 2008’s financial crisis.

October 26, 2011

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Elizabeth Razzi

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Resilience and Sustainability

Design and Planning

Solar-Home Competition Now Embraces Urban Needs

Notions of urbanism and density are creeping into the Solar Decathlon, a biennial solar-home competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. While many of the prototypes on display in late September in Washington, D.C., still had a suburban or rural live-off-the-grid purpose, some university groups have begun to design homes attuned to the needs of their schools’ urban settings.

October 5, 2011

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Elizabeth Razzi

Economy, Market & Trends

Industry Sectors

Keeping Cities Going Despite the Financial Crisis

Local governments need to reevaluate the services they deliver to constituents to cope with ongoing fiscal distress, according to government and private sector leaders from the United States and Europe participating in a recent roundtable in Washington, D.C., that was sponsored by the German Marshall Fund and ULI’s Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use. Learn how governments are coping with the ongoing fiscal distress.

September 19, 2011

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Elizabeth Razzi

Urban Land Contributors