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Woven City: Toyota’s Planned Proving Ground in Japan
Employees, business partners, and others may set up housekeeping and create a real-life test environment for new technologies in autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
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Keeping an Eye on Privacy as Cities Get Smarter
A sleek utility pole called the Ekin Spotter—made by Ekin, an international software, hardware, and design firm that focuses on smart cities—can accommodate such modules as a license-plate reader, traffic radar, red-light cameras, and air quality sensors, along with electric-vehicle charging ports. This was the type of municipal-level technology on display at the 2020 CES show earlier this year, along with other smart-city components such as partially or fully autonomous vehicles, delivery drones, and street-based sensors.
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Family-Oriented Rental Housing: Filling an Urgent Need and an Untapped Opportunity
The family-oriented U.S. rental housing stock has failed to focus on older millennials with families who require larger units, according to a new ULI report.
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Life Sciences Continue to Be Driving Force in the Boston Metro Area’s Economy
While the various segments of the Greater Boston commercial real estate industry grapple with how to return to operations safely as the global pandemic persists, the region’s life science sector continues to thrive. Acquisition, development, and leasing of laboratory properties remain robust in Boston and Cambridge as well as in the submarkets, according to a panel of life science property owners recently assembled for a ULI Boston webinar.
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222 Taylor: Affordable Family Housing Takes Root in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
June 18, 2020Public subsidies, persistence, and innovative design decisions helped create homes for some of the poorest residents of San Francisco.
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Reflections on Race, Equity, and a Mandate for Action
June 12, 2020A member co-chair of the ULI Washington Diversity and Inclusion Working Group writes about the recent events in D.C. and beyond.
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Tracking China’s Burgeoning Recovery from COVID-19
June 9, 2020When the SARS epidemic surfaced in China in 2003, the impact on domestic real estate was severe but fairly short-lived, with rents and prices rebounding quickly once the outbreak had peaked. The fallout from COVID-19, however, promises to be more profound, as shrinking global demand for Chinese products turns the screw on firms that have only recently restarted operations, said industry experts working in the region.
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Repurposing Flexible Spaces Helping Singapore Developers Recover
May 28, 2020Panelists at this year’s ULI Singapore Conference, held virtually for the first time, discussed the challenges they face as developers with recent workplace disruptions, how to allow for working remotely while catering to the needs of stakeholders, and the lasting impact the pandemic will have on commercial real estate as a whole.
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Drawing High-End Consumers Back to Mixed-Use Retail
May 27, 2020In a discussion of the ongoing transformation of U.S. retail, panelists participating in the 2020 ULI Spring Meeting Webinar Series agreed that the authenticity, differentiation, and transparency creating a sense of place in mixed-use retail spaces are likely to be what consumers seek in the future. Single-use spaces are about convenience, but that is only half of what consumers say they are looking for.
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In Brief: Where the Residential Growth Has Been in U.S. Neighborhoods
RCLCO’s Neighborhood Atlas framework initially examined the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the country to classify each of their suburbs into one of five categories. RCLCO has expanded its analysis to cover six different types of urban neighborhoods as well, expanding to 100 of America’s largest metropolitan areas.