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Ron Nyren

Ron Nyren is a freelance architecture, urban planning, and real estate writer based in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Design and Planning
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Urban Design
Climate Resilience Design Standards Starting to Become Mandatory
As climate change worsens and the intensity of extreme weather–related events increases, meeting modern building codes may not be enough. Municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and industry groups are developing climate resilience design standards and tools, some of which are required or incentivized for publicly funded projects, and others of which may become expected or required for commercial real estate transactions.
September 26, 2022
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Development and Construction
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News
Armchair Tour: Oak Cliff Rising in Dallas
Across the Trinity River from downtown Dallas, Oak Cliff is one of the city’s oldest areas, dating back to the 1880s. In its heyday, it contained stable, diverse neighborhoods, including what is now one of the nation’s few intact freedmen’s towns, the 10th Street Historic District. Attendees of ULI’s 2022 Fall Meeting in Dallas can tour new developments that are transforming this area with an eye toward equity.
September 15, 2022
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Resilience and Sustainability
How the Real Estate and Insurance Industries Can Prepare for Extreme Weather Events
In recent years, wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather events have not only caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage to property and infrastructure but also resulted in massive losses for insurance companies. In addition, they have significantly bumped up insurance premiums in many vulnerable areas. As real estate owners and investors look for strategies to understand and prepare for climate-change-related risks, insurers are studying ways to encourage policyholders to implement resilience measures to reduce risk.
September 12, 2022
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Economy, Market & Trends
Product Council Outlook for Travel
What trends are influencing business and leisure travel in the wake of the pandemic? Members of ULI’s travel-oriented product councils discuss the continued fallout from the pandemic; ways the hospitality industry is renovating, repositioning, and reflagging properties in response to COVID-related changes; the rising interest in environmental, social, and governance issues; innovations in hospitality and travel experiences; and other trends.
August 29, 2022
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Development and Construction
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Real Estate Trends
Reversing the U.S. Housing Shortage
The U.S. housing affordability crisis has both sharpened and spread significantly in the last decade: once largely confined to the coasts and the Southwest, it now extends to nearly every state. The number of metropolitan areas that underproduced housing rose from 100 to 169 between 2012 to 169 in 2019; nationally, underproduction nearly doubled in the same time period, from 1.65 to 3.79 million units.
August 23, 2022
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Design and Planning
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San Francisco
UL10: Green Hotels
These 10 hotels embody environmental sensitivity plus energy and water efficiency.
August 22, 2022
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Resilience and Sustainability
What the Historic U.S. Climate Bill Could Mean for the Real Estate Industry
Over the weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which now heads to the House of Representatives. The bill aims to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2030. It also holds the potential to transform the built environment—but experts say that depends on how much state and local governments work with the private and nonprofit sectors to use the federal investments as a catalyst.
August 8, 2022
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Resilience and Sustainability
A Microgrid Powers a Bus Fleet to Slash Emissions and Enhance Resilience
This fall, a fleet of electric buses will begin quietly rolling across Montgomery County, Maryland, their batteries charged by a new microgrid, designed to cut the fleet’s carbon emissions by 62 percent.
August 8, 2022
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Economy, Market & Trends
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Mixed-Use
Armchair Tour: Two Texas Master-Planned Communities Evolve Beyond Office Uses at Las Colinas and Cypress Waters
Attendees of ULI’s 2022 Fall Meeting in Dallas will have the chance to visit two master-planned communities northwest of the city’s downtown.
July 28, 2022
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Resilience and Sustainability
How the Real Estate Industry Can Advance Decarbonization Despite the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Even if utilities transition more slowly toward renewable energy sources as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, the movement toward all-electric buildings is still as important as ever.
July 27, 2022
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