Design and Planning
Discover how experts drive innovation in urban design, infrastructure, adaptive reuse, and community‑centered planning
Federal funds, combined with nonprofit support and a bank loan, allowed restoration of a badly deteriorated San Francisco landmark.
Located in Portland, Oregon’s Pearl District, the Brewery Blocks mixed-use development is a thriving and sustainable urban community.
How the Hayes Valley neighborhood championed good city making—and affordable housing—following the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Walkable streetscapes, housing, and other uses are coming to the sprawling Silicon Valley city.
The Exploratorium, an internationally renowned museum of science, art, and human perception, reopened on April 17, 2013, introducing its new indoor and outdoor campus at Pier 15 on the San Francisco waterfront.
How public and private interests combined forces to overhaul the transit hub, now home to San Francisco’s tallest building, Salesforce Tower.
A Miami architect/developer conceives flexible, two-unit urban townhouses to make them more affordable—especially in the walkable, close-in urban neighborhoods that millennials prefer.
One of the first parks built as part of the District of Columbia’s Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, Canal Park presents a model of sustainability, a social gathering place, and an economic trigger for the rapidly developing surrounding neighborhood.
Six finalists have been selected for ULI’s Urban Open Space Award, the first year in which the competition was open to projects outside the United States and Canada. An international jury will select one winner, which will be announced at the Fall Meeting.
Located in the newly established district of Nanhai, the 286-acre (116 ha) Thousand Lantern Lake Park System provides a continuous green urban corridor for the surrounding neighborhood. It consists of a commercial precinct, public parks, and civic buildings arranged around a series of lakes and waterways.
Tongva Park and Ken Genser Square embody a new type of urban landscape that is active, innovative, resource-conscious, and natural.
Between 2009 and 2011, the municipal government of Oklahoma City, in coordination with the Myriad Gardens Foundation and the Alliance for Economic Development, invested more than $42 million to transform the Myriad Gardens.