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Technology, cybernetics, and the importance of innovation were at the heart of the final day of ULI Asia Pacific’s RE Imaginevirtual conference. Keynote speaker Dr. Catherine Ball spoke about the importance of innovation and using systems-led thinking to build better cities and spaces.

A member co-chair of the ULI Washington Diversity and Inclusion Working Group writes about the recent events in D.C. and beyond.

A compelling and unique book, Atlas of Citiesgoes beyond maps to provide insights into the dynamics of how cities shape contemporary social and economic activities.

Wearable technology, driverless cars, and the sharing economy are challenging the real estate industry to design cities with alternative buildings and services to keep pace with changing lifestyles, a leading design consultant said at the ULI’s Real Estate Trends conference in London.

Members of ULI’s Technology and Real Estate Council discuss the value of property technologies for real estate developers and investors—technologies that offer the most for building tenants, ways of sorting out the hype surrounding property technologies, promising technologies still in the process of being realized, and other related trends.

A primary challenge for university faculty has been how to teach design to real estate students. The goal is not to make them architects, but to make them knowledgeable clients.

Five ULI members share their perspectives on the importance of real estate industry support for parks and their own experiences with championing parks.

The area’s housing is among the least affordable in the world. How much of that is attributable to Chinese expats is the subject of an ongoing debate.

Work will begin this summer to transform an abandoned 2.7-mile (4.4 km) stretch of elevated railway in Chicago into the Bloomingdale Trail, the city’s only pedestrian greenway and bike path running east to west, which ultimately will connect pedestrians and cyclists to trails that stretch all the way to the Indiana state line.

In 1998, Mayor Richard M. Daley established a partnership with Chicago’s philanthropic community called the Millennium Park Foundation (MPF), a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation, and together they produced Millennium Park, which opened July 16, 2004.