Densification is the key to responding to population growth, economic changes, new lifestyle preferences, and the sustainability imperative in European cities, according to a new report by ULI and TH Real Estate. The Density Dividend: Solutions for Growing and Shrinking Citiesdraws from the experience of six European cities at various stages of population change and makes clear that many cities have little choice but to densify.

The ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing has named one development and two programs as winners of the annual ULI Housing Awards.

Lamont Blackstone, chairman of the board of Project REAP, the nation’s leading diversity initiative focused on the commercial real estate industry, shares his thoughts on why the commercial real estate (CRE) industry lagged behind other economic sectors in embracing diversity.

Longtime Urban Land Institute leader A. Alfred Taubman passed away following a heart attack. He was 91. Taubman, a real estate industry icon who pioneered the development of enclosed shopping malls, had been a ULI Foundation governor since 1985. He served as a trustee from 1980 through 1992, and was a member of the ULI Advisory Services committee from 1995 to 1996.

Bringing open space, retail, residential, and other uses to a transportation hub—and former industrial site.

Urban Land magazine has announced the winners of its first-ever 40 Under 40 competition, which recognizes the best and brightest young land use professionals from around the globe as determined by a jury of leading ULI members.

On China’s southern coast, the integration of the Greater Pearl River Delta links nine cities, plus the special administrative zones of Hong Kong and Macau, to create an urban area of 21,100 square miles (55,000 sq km) and a population of up to 80 million.

Marilee Utter, a longtime ULI trustee, has been named executive vice president of the institute’s district council program, which serves members in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She will be responsible for the overall management, leadership, and delivery of the conceptual and programmatic functions offered by the district councils. Read about the strengths she brings to the job.

National and regional housing policy leaders gathered recently in the nation’s quintessential “edge city,” Tysons Corner, Virginia, to discuss why it’s so important to include workforce housing in a planned transformation of a sprawling suburban office park to a walkable, green urban center. Read what ULI members and other experts say about the need for, and ability to, include workforce housing in this particular project and nationally.