Julie Stern

Julie D. Stern is a Falls Church, Virginia–based freelance writer and editor, as well as a former senior editor of Urban Land magazine.

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Mixed-Use
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Economy, Market & Trends
Planning for a Generation that Thinks Outside of the House
Generation Y and Boomers are both challenging assumptions about the primacy of suburban homeownership. More than ever, renters and homebuyers are focusing on a sense of place and amenities rather than on the size of their homes.
July 11, 2012
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Residential
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Economy, Market & Trends
Solo Cities: How “Living Alone” Is Changing Urban America
Far from being loners, singles in the city are creating connections—and vitality—says Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone.
June 28, 2012
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Residential
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Economy, Market & Trends
Housing Demand: What Will a Comeback Look Like?
With the number of household formations tapering off significantly in the past few years, dismal job growth, tight credit standards, low housing prices (which have yet to rebound in most of the nation), and lots of policy uncertainties, future demand also looks rather dismal, said David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, at a ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing forum on June 21.
June 22, 2012
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Industrial
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Development and Construction
Data Center Opportunities
The government’s data center consolidation efforts, cloud computing initiative, and budget constraints are creating opportunities for private data centers, attendees at one Bisnow Media event learned.
February 29, 2012
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Infrastructure
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Economy, Market & Trends
Leveraging Transit to Remake Suburbia
A long-term vision, collaboration, and innovation were key themes in ULI’s recent “Retooling Places and Leveraging Transit: Overcoming Funding and Coordination Challenges to Build a Better Region” forum.
December 15, 2011
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Design and Planning
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Urban and Regional Planning
Timeline—Overview of 75 Years in ULI History
Read about ULI from the 1930s—when a fledgling ULI emerged as an independent organization designed to help U.S. land developers—a place where practical knowledge is gathered, shared, and expanded even today—to the 2010s—when ULI kicked off a yearlong celebration of its 75th anniversary at the Institute’s annual Fall Meeting and Urban Land Expo at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
December 13, 2011
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Best Practices
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Public Buildings - Government Facilities
Greening the Police Station
As city governments seek to improve the sustainability of their buildings—while also cutting operating costs—they are increasingly exploring the benefits of green civic structures. Read about the city of Henderson, Nevada’s experience with its North Community Police Station, which offers valuable lessons for other cities while also highlighting some important benefits of a green police station.
October 6, 2011
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Office
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Design and Planning
Flexibility Key to Office of the Future
As new technologies are creating new models of how and where people work, office developers must adapt to these changes in order to provide affordable, sustainable, and appealing workplaces for the future. At a Bisnow Media event in D.C. on June 30, panels of developers, office product providers, and office users discussed how offices are changing—and how they must continue to evolve.
August 17, 2011
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Development and Construction
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Economy, Market & Trends
Data Centers Consolidating, Booming
On July 20—the same day the federal government announced its plans to close 40 percent of its data centers—panelists at a “Data Center Boom” event agreed that new data center development is booming. Read how the rapid shift to virtualization technology and cloud computing is spurring the government’s data center consolidation while also driving demand for new data centers and storage facilities.
August 10, 2011
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Resilience and Sustainability
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Design and Planning
Taking Sustainability to the Next Level
Several hundred real estate professionals recently gathered at a Sustainability Summit in Washington, D.C., to hear Washington-area experts discuss the current and future status of sustainable development. Read what the experts had to say about where we’ve come, where the future is with USGBC’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and the current rollout of LEED 2012 for its first public comment process.
November 18, 2010
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