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In 2003, Waterfront Toronto, a tri-government agency, undertook the transformation of 79 acres (32 ha) of provincially owned brownfields in Toronto’s downtown east end. The West Don Lands project was designed through extensive community engagement and collaboration between government and the private sector. The result was an award-winning precinct plan for a pedestrian-focused community—built around parks, with housing for people of all ages, income levels, and abilities; well served by transit, retail, and community amenities; and developed in accordance with stringent sustainability requirements.

Most people walking Denver’s 16th Street today won’t stop to admire its drainage system or its suspended paving soil cells. They may not notice the careful choreography of trees, transit, and human movement as they stroll the pedestrian-oriented thoroughfare. What they will notice, ideally, is that something about the street just feels better. This kind of sublime shift reveals itself through human experience.

The Centers for Leadership at ULI’s district councils offers opportunities to network, learn, and give back to one’s community, all in a one program.

Variety, stimulation, and an atmosphere of tolerance help attract people who can afford to be choosy about where they live.

Philadelphia has historically been known as “a city of firsts”—the first library, hospital, and post office in the United States were all founded there. So perhaps it is fitting that it has become the first World Heritage City in the United States, a designation that could be a boon for local tourism.

As more commercial properties work to reopen safely during the COVID-19 pandemic, independent healthy building certifications developed in response to the coronavirus are increasingly being sought by building owners, managers, and tenants seeking to assure building users that their spaces are safe to enter and occupy. The leading healthy building certification systems, WELL and Fitwel, have developed new certification modules.

For decades after its construction in the 1960s, locals had a wry nickname for Boston City Hall Plaza—“the red tundra,” for its wide, treeless, wind-swept expanse of red brick. In the last decade, however, the plaza transformed into an inviting destination for all.

Wall Street seems to be experiencing something between a “summer swoon” and a bad reaction to a visit to the house of mirrors, as it continues to parse, re-parse, and parse once again the all too numerous statements by members of the Federal Reserve’s hierarchy.

In this talk for TEDxJacksonville, ULI senior fellow Ed McMahon sets forth an argument for the economic, psychological and social value of uniqueness.

A group of nationally renowned land use and urban planning experts has been convened by the Urban Land Institute to make recommendations regarding the redevelopment and reuse of the NRG Astrodome to the Harris County Sports & Convention Corporation.