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Two-time governor of Florida Jeb Bush will deliver the closing keynote address at the ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago November 5–8. Other speakers will include: Sam Zell, founder of Equity Group Investments and chairman of Equity International; Dan Pelino, general manager, Global Public Sector, IBM; and Cia Buckley, chief investment officer of Dune Real Estate Partners.

Happiness and access to viable transit tend to go together, according to new research by a transportation expert with the University of Minnesota.

ULI has selected Jason L. Ray as its new chief technology officer. Ray most recently served as the head of technology for the GAVI Alliance, a public/private global health partnership originally chaired by Nelson Mandela and established with a $750 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

This is an excerpt of the book Pedestrian- & Transit-Oriented Design which operationalizes nearly a half-century of urban design theory in ways that provide practical meaning and use to urban planners, planning commissioners, city council members, developers and citizens who desire more livable environments.

The mayors of Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; Memphis, Tennessee; and Portland, Oregon, have been selected as the 2013–2014 fellows for the ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership. The mayor of each city will lead a team of three fellows and a coordinator who together will select a local land use challenge on which they will receive technical assistance from faculty experts assembled by ULI and their peers from the other three fellowship cities.

Registration is underway for the 2013 ULI Spring Meeting, taking place May 15 to 17 in San Diego.

Whatever form natural disasters take, cities need to incorporate resilience and sustainability into their existing infrastructure and in their plans for growth.

For the first time since the Mori Memorial Foundation began compiling its Global Power City Index in 2008, New York City fell from the top spot. Mostly due to the activities surrounding this year’s Olympics, the Japanese-based researcher found that London ranked the highest in terms of “magnetism.”

In the past few months, unemployment has fallen, the housing market has strengthened, gas prices have fallen, and consumer confidence is at a five-year high. Would those positive indicators be negated by the economic shock of falling off the fiscal cliff, and plunge the U.S. back into recession?

In 2008, I was running the Bay Area office that I founded for a regional West Coast high-density residential for-sale developer. When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on September 15, I had just delivered 400 units that were about 50 percent presold in two developments in downtown San Francisco. Within about 12 months, my San Francisco operation was consolidated into the Seattle-based corporate office as the company downsized from five to two offices.