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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Capital Markets and Finance
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Economy, Market & Trends
Change Agents
When a new editor takes the helm of a publication, it is reasonable for readers to wonder what changes are in store.
February 15, 2012
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ULI Day, December 14, 2011
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Economy, Market & Trends
Leadership: Q&A with Smedes York
ULI trustee Smedes York served as chairman from 1989 to 1991. He is chairman of York Properties Inc. in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was mayor of that city from 1979 to 1983. Smedes is a second-generation ULI leader from the York family and here discusses the current economic and real estate markets, his experience, and his views for the future.
December 13, 2011
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ULI Day, December 14, 2011
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Economy, Market & Trends
Changing Partnerships: ULI Goes Global
“You have to look globally because the world has been globalizing over the last 20 years,” says Richard M. Rosan, president of the ULI Foundation, which supports ULI through philanthropy. He also served as ULI’s chief executive for 17 years, during which he led the expansion abroad.
December 13, 2011
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Development and Construction
ULI’s Rose Center Addresses Fiscal Distress
Local governments need to reevaluate their services—and identify other sources that could help provide them—in order to cope with ongoing fiscal distress, speakers at a recent roundtable say.
December 2, 2011
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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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Fall Meeting
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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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Fall Meeting
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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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Capital Markets and Finance
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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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Fall Meeting
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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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Resilience and Sustainability
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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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