Urban Land Institute
Encyclopedia
The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a non-profit research and education organization with offices in Washington, D.C.
, Hong Kong
, and London
. Its stated mission is "to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide." ULI advocates progressive development, conducting research and education in topics such as sustainability, smart growth
, compact development, place making, and workforce housing
.
The ULI was founded in 1936 and currently has over 33,000 members. More than 20% of the members work in government
, academia
, or public-private partnerships. Most of the rest are involved in the real estate
and urban development industries.
ULI states that it produces regular research and publications "that anticipates emerging land use trends and issues, proposing creative solutions based on that research" and "imparts knowledge to help the development community continuously improve its performance."
ULI also maintains a number of initiatives and programs, including a respected Advisory Services program that provides government, businesses and non-profits with strategic advice on real estate development and urban policy issues. For more than 20 years, ULI has assembled a Real Estate School, designed to provide professional development skills to land use practitioners. ULI also hosts regular events, including local district council meetings, its annual Fall Meeting & Urban Land Expo, and Spring Council Forum.
The organization's current president and CEO, Patrick Phillips, is the former president of ERA AECOM
. He replaced Richard Rosan, who served as the organization's president and CEO for 17 years. Rosan currently serves as the president of the ULI Foundation. ULI employs several research vice presidents, including executive vice president of strategic communication, Lela Agnew (formerly of the Historic Charleston Foundation
); executive director of the ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, Jess Zimbabwe; executive vice president of district councils, Marilee Utter (current president of Citiventure Associates, LLC); and executive vice president of policy and practice, Maureen McAvey.
on December 14, 1936 as the National Real Estate Foundation for Practical Research and Education, with the attention of becoming a research and education college in real estate and "urbiculture." In 1939 the organization changed its name to the Urban Land Institute, two years after establishing its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. In 1940, an internal bulletin stated the institute's mission as having "been established to assist American cities in their problems of planning, replanning, construction, and reconstruction."
ULI held its first conference in 1941, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in Boston
. A year later, ULI established itself as an advocacy organization with the publication of "Outline for a Legislative Program to Rebuild Our Cities." That same year, the intitute relocated its headquarters to Washington, DC.
In 1944, members J.C. Nichols and Hugh Potter would organize ULI's first council, the Community Builder's Council, focusing on suburban building issues facing post-World War II American cities. The institute's advisory services program was established in 1947, conducting its first panel for the city of Louisville, Kentucky.
ULI would continue to move towards becoming a more research-focused institution during the 1960s, establishing its first research program in 1960. The institute would conduct a number of multiyear comparative land use studies and begin spreading their influence abroad by holding it its first international meeting for sustaining members in Mexico City in 1965. Two years later, in 1967, the Community Builder's Council hosted ULI's first European study tour.
The 1970s would be a decade of expansion and growth for the organization. The Urban Land Research Foundation (later called the ULI Foundation) is created to "help meet the rising need for an expanding more accessible body of development information." ULI membership increased to over 6,000 by 1947 and its annual budget grew to more than $1.5 million in 1976. In 1979, ULI expanded its number of councils along and established the ULI Awards for Excellence program.
UrbanPlan, the institute's second high school program is created with the help of a grant award from the National Geographic Society Education Foundation. In 1992 the institute created its first two European district councils for the cities of London and Barcelona.
The ULI Senior Resident Fellows program is established in 1996. That same year, the first ULI Mayor's Forum is held with the intention of creating a venue for city officials and the private sector to meet and seek solutions to urban problems.
The European office relocated to London and founded the Community Action Grant program in 2004. In 2007, the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing was created in addition to the opening of a ULI office in Hong Kong. By the 2008, ULI membership would exceed 40,000. That same year, ULI created the ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use along with the launch of the Urban Investment Network in Europe.
Some noteworthy ULI panels include its recommendations for redeveloping a four-mile stretch of downtown Los Angeles into a CleanTech Corridor and its advice on how to revitalize Denver’s 16th Street Mall. ULI's panels have also offered consultant work for post-catastrophic redevelopment, including the 2007 I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as advise to officials on how to rebuild Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks.
There has been controversy over a few of the panel's recommendations, including its 2005 post-Hurricane Katrina advice for rebuilding New Orleans. The Nation's Mike Davis said that the recommendations "reframed the historic elite desire to shrink the city's socioeconomic footprint of black poverty (and black political power) as a crusade to reduce its physical footprint to contours commensurate with public safety and a fiscally viable urban infrastructure." Others have praised panels' recommendations, seeing them as possessing a "crystal ball," as reported by the Oklahoman when looking back at the advisory report issued just months after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
.
, former chairman of Trammell Crow Residential. The Center has produced a number of reports which look at the availability of affordable housing as well as the combined transportation and housing costs of individual U.S. metro areas. The Center has produced reports for San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Boston.
, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon
.
Student Urban Design Competition, the J. C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, the Amanda Burden
Urban Open Space Award, and the Jack Kemp
Models of Excellence Awards.
of Kansas City
, Missouri
. Winners receive a $100,000 prize, which is funded through an endowment from the Nichols family to the ULI Foundation. Past winners of the J.C. Nichols Prize include Mayor Richard M. Daley
, Amanda Burden
, Peter Calthorpe
, and Vincent Scully
.
, donated her $100,000 prize back to ULI for the creation of the Award. Detroit’s Campus Martius Park was the inaugural winner of the Award, receiving a $10,000 cash prize.
.
, the University of California Berkeley, and a joint team from North Carolina State University
and UNC-Chapel Hill.
, in 1941. Currently, the magazine prints six editions per calendar year and is made available only to the institute's membership. It publishes articles on a variety of land use and commercial real estate topics affecting industry professionals. Over the years, the institute has published other limited-run magazine titles, including Multifamily Trends and Urban Land Green. In 2010, the institute launched an online version of Urban Land magazine.
In addition, the Urban Land Institute Infrastructure Initiative publishes an annual infrastructure report. Since 2007, with the support of Ernst & Young, the Urban Land Institute has produced an annual report that highlights trends and issues on a range of infrastructure topics. Since the first issue of the report in 2007, the Infrastructure report receives considerable coverage in both the national and local media.
Throughout the years of the institute, ULI has produced other noteworthy publications including The City Fights Back (1954), The Dollars & Cents of Shopping Centers series (first published in 1961) and The Homes Association Handbook (1964). Recent publications have included Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI Guide to Business (2003), Real Estate Development: Principles and Process (2007), Growing Cooler (2008), and Real Estate Market Analysis: Methods and Case Studies (2009).
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, and London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. Its stated mission is "to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide." ULI advocates progressive development, conducting research and education in topics such as sustainability, smart growth
Smart growth
Smart growth is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in compact walkable urban centers to avoid sprawl and advocates compact, transit-oriented, walkable, bicycle-friendly land use, including neighborhood schools, complete streets, and mixed-use development with a...
, compact development, place making, and workforce housing
Workforce housing
Workforce housing is a term that is increasingly used by planners, government, and organizations concerned with housing policy or advocacy. It is gaining cachet with realtors, developers and lenders. Workforce housing can refer to any form of housing, including ownership of single or multi-family...
.
The ULI was founded in 1936 and currently has over 33,000 members. More than 20% of the members work in government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
, academia
Academia
Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...
, or public-private partnerships. Most of the rest are involved in the real estate
Real estate
In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
and urban development industries.
ULI states that it produces regular research and publications "that anticipates emerging land use trends and issues, proposing creative solutions based on that research" and "imparts knowledge to help the development community continuously improve its performance."
ULI also maintains a number of initiatives and programs, including a respected Advisory Services program that provides government, businesses and non-profits with strategic advice on real estate development and urban policy issues. For more than 20 years, ULI has assembled a Real Estate School, designed to provide professional development skills to land use practitioners. ULI also hosts regular events, including local district council meetings, its annual Fall Meeting & Urban Land Expo, and Spring Council Forum.
The organization's current president and CEO, Patrick Phillips, is the former president of ERA AECOM
AECOM
AECOM Technology Corporation is a professional technical and management support services firm. The company is ranked as the number one design firm for 2010 and 2011 by Engineering News-Record and number one by Architectural Record. It provides services in the areas of transportation, planning,...
. He replaced Richard Rosan, who served as the organization's president and CEO for 17 years. Rosan currently serves as the president of the ULI Foundation. ULI employs several research vice presidents, including executive vice president of strategic communication, Lela Agnew (formerly of the Historic Charleston Foundation
Historic Charleston Foundation
Historic Charleston Foundation was founded in 1947 to preserve and protect the integrity of architectural, historical and cultural heritage of Charleston, South Carolina, USA...
); executive director of the ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, Jess Zimbabwe; executive vice president of district councils, Marilee Utter (current president of Citiventure Associates, LLC); and executive vice president of policy and practice, Maureen McAvey.
1936-1949
ULI was founded on during the Great DepressionGreat Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...
on December 14, 1936 as the National Real Estate Foundation for Practical Research and Education, with the attention of becoming a research and education college in real estate and "urbiculture." In 1939 the organization changed its name to the Urban Land Institute, two years after establishing its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. In 1940, an internal bulletin stated the institute's mission as having "been established to assist American cities in their problems of planning, replanning, construction, and reconstruction."
ULI held its first conference in 1941, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
. A year later, ULI established itself as an advocacy organization with the publication of "Outline for a Legislative Program to Rebuild Our Cities." That same year, the intitute relocated its headquarters to Washington, DC.
In 1944, members J.C. Nichols and Hugh Potter would organize ULI's first council, the Community Builder's Council, focusing on suburban building issues facing post-World War II American cities. The institute's advisory services program was established in 1947, conducting its first panel for the city of Louisville, Kentucky.
1950-1979
The 1950s would be marked with the establishment of the J.C. Nichols Foundation (which would later evolve into the ULI Foundation) as well as the institute's first shopping center costs study.ULI would continue to move towards becoming a more research-focused institution during the 1960s, establishing its first research program in 1960. The institute would conduct a number of multiyear comparative land use studies and begin spreading their influence abroad by holding it its first international meeting for sustaining members in Mexico City in 1965. Two years later, in 1967, the Community Builder's Council hosted ULI's first European study tour.
The 1970s would be a decade of expansion and growth for the organization. The Urban Land Research Foundation (later called the ULI Foundation) is created to "help meet the rising need for an expanding more accessible body of development information." ULI membership increased to over 6,000 by 1947 and its annual budget grew to more than $1.5 million in 1976. In 1979, ULI expanded its number of councils along and established the ULI Awards for Excellence program.
1980-1999
ULI created its regional council program in 1983, starting with only seven councils in various U.S. cities. Later the institute created district councils and held its first Real Estate School in 1986.UrbanPlan, the institute's second high school program is created with the help of a grant award from the National Geographic Society Education Foundation. In 1992 the institute created its first two European district councils for the cities of London and Barcelona.
The ULI Senior Resident Fellows program is established in 1996. That same year, the first ULI Mayor's Forum is held with the intention of creating a venue for city officials and the private sector to meet and seek solutions to urban problems.
2000-2011
In 2000, the ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development is established and the number of ULI councils grows to 39, expanding to Europe, Asia, and South America. A year later, in 2001, ULI opened its first European office in Brussels, Belgium. That same year, the first Young Leaders group is established by the ULI Houston district council. A majority of the other district councils have a Young Leaders group by 2005.The European office relocated to London and founded the Community Action Grant program in 2004. In 2007, the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing was created in addition to the opening of a ULI office in Hong Kong. By the 2008, ULI membership would exceed 40,000. That same year, ULI created the ULI Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use along with the launch of the Urban Investment Network in Europe.
Advisory services
ULI’s Advisory Services program brings together experienced real estate and land use professionals to develop innovative solutions for complex land use and real estate development projects, programs, and policies. Since 1947, over 600 panels have been completed in 47 U.S. states, 12 countries, and 4 continents. During this time, the panels have helped sponsors find creative, practical solutions for issues such as downtown redevelopment, land management, development potential, growth management, community revitalization, brownfields redevelopment, military base reuse, workforce and affordable housing, and asset management. Panels have also provided expert and objective advice in the wake of natural and man-made disasters such as hurricanes,flood, infrastructure failures and tornados and acts of terrorism.Some noteworthy ULI panels include its recommendations for redeveloping a four-mile stretch of downtown Los Angeles into a CleanTech Corridor and its advice on how to revitalize Denver’s 16th Street Mall. ULI's panels have also offered consultant work for post-catastrophic redevelopment, including the 2007 I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota as well as advise to officials on how to rebuild Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks.
There has been controversy over a few of the panel's recommendations, including its 2005 post-Hurricane Katrina advice for rebuilding New Orleans. The Nation's Mike Davis said that the recommendations "reframed the historic elite desire to shrink the city's socioeconomic footprint of black poverty (and black political power) as a crusade to reduce its physical footprint to contours commensurate with public safety and a fiscally viable urban infrastructure." Others have praised panels' recommendations, seeing them as possessing a "crystal ball," as reported by the Oklahoman when looking back at the advisory report issued just months after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
Oklahoma City bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It was the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil until the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19...
of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was a United States Federal Government complex located at 200 N.W. 5th Street in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. The building was the target of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people, including 19 children...
.
ULI J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing
The Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing is a project of the Urban Land Institute made to increase production of affordable rate, workforce housing for people living near centers of employment. It was founded with a $5 million donation from Ron TerwilligerRon Terwilliger
J. Ronald Terwilliger is the Chief Executive Officer of Trammell Crow Residential. He is primarily known for being the principal owner of the Atlanta Dream, a franchise of the Women's National Basketball Association ....
, former chairman of Trammell Crow Residential. The Center has produced a number of reports which look at the availability of affordable housing as well as the combined transportation and housing costs of individual U.S. metro areas. The Center has produced reports for San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Boston.
ULI Daniel Rose Center For Public Leadership in Land Use
The Rose Center seeks to fosters excellence in land use decision making by providing public officials with the resources needed to create sustainable and efficient land use policies. The Center was founded in 2008 after a $5 million start-up grant from Daniel Rose, chairman of New York-based Rose Associates. The Rose Center has yearlong fellowship program. Every years, the Rose Center names four mayors to its annual class of Rose Center Fellows. Each mayor selects three local land use leaders who serve as advisers on that mayor's team. Past fellows have included Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, Nashville Mayor Karl DeanKarl Dean
Karl Foster Dean is the sixth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. He was sworn in on September 21, 2007. From 1999 to January 9, 2007, Karl Dean served as Nashville's Director of Law under Mayor Bill Purcell. In 1990, 1994, and 1998, he was elected the...
, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon
Phil Gordon
Philip Stewart Gordon is an American professional poker player, commentator and author.-Personal life:Gordon was born in El Paso, Texas. He spent his formative years in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Gordon began attending Georgia Tech at the age of 15 while still attending high school...
.
Awards and competitions
The organization makes several awards annually, including the ULI Awards for Excellence, the ULI Gerald D. HinesGerald D. Hines
Gerald D. Hines is the founder and chairman of Hines, a privately held real estate firm with its U.S. headquarters located in Houston, Texas, and its European headquarters located in London....
Student Urban Design Competition, the J. C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, the Amanda Burden
Amanda Burden
Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden is the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission....
Urban Open Space Award, and the Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp
Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st...
Models of Excellence Awards.
J.C. Nichols Prize
The Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development is an annual award given to an individual (or an institution's representative) who has made a career commitment to responsible land development. The Nichols Prize was established in 2000, in honor of the legendary and influential 20th century land developer, Jesse Clyde NicholsJesse Clyde Nichols
Jesse Clyde Nichols , better known as J. C. Nichols, was a prominent developer of commercial and residential real estate in Kansas City. He was born in Olathe, Kansas, attended the University of Kansas and Harvard University...
of Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
. Winners receive a $100,000 prize, which is funded through an endowment from the Nichols family to the ULI Foundation. Past winners of the J.C. Nichols Prize include Mayor Richard M. Daley
Richard M. Daley
Richard Michael Daley is a United States politician, member of the national and local Democratic Party, and former Mayor of Chicago, Illinois. He was elected mayor in 1989 and reelected in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007. He was the longest serving Chicago mayor, surpassing the tenure of his...
, Amanda Burden
Amanda Burden
Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden is the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission....
, Peter Calthorpe
Peter Calthorpe
Peter Calthorpe is a San Francisco-based architect, urban designer and urban planner. He is a founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism, a Chicago-based advocacy group formed in 1992 that promotes sustainable building practices.-Biography:...
, and Vincent Scully
Vincent Scully
Vincent Joseph Scully, Jr. is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject...
.
ULI Awards for Excellence
According to their website, the "ULI Awards for Excellence define the standard for real estate development practice worldwide." Founded in 1978, the awards program is the centerpiece of ULI’s efforts to identify and promote best practices in all types of real estate development. The ULI Awards for Excellence program honors development projects in three regions: the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Each region has its own jury, schedule, and fees. Winners from each competition go on to compete in the Global Awards for Excellence competition.ULI Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award
The ULI Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award is an annual prize that recognizes one outstanding example of an urban public open space that has both enriched the local character and revitalized its surrounding community. The award program was established in 2009, after that year's ULI J.C. Nichols Prize winner, Amanda BurdenAmanda Burden
Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden is the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission....
, donated her $100,000 prize back to ULI for the creation of the Award. Detroit’s Campus Martius Park was the inaugural winner of the Award, receiving a $10,000 cash prize.
ULI Jack Kemp Models of Excellence Awards
The ULI Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Award honors developers who demonstrate both leadership and creativity in expanding the availability of workforce housing in the United States. The awards program was established by the ULI Terwilliger Center in 2008 under the original name, the ULI/J. Ronald Terwilliger Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Awards. It was later renamed in tribute to Jack KempJack Kemp
Jack French Kemp was an American politician and a collegiate and professional football player. A Republican, he served as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms as a congressman for Western New York's 31st...
.
ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition
The ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, started in 2003, gives graduate-level students the opportunity to compete for a $50,000 prize. To enter, a team must be composed of students from at least three disciplines. Each year, a real, large-scale site is selected. Student teams then have two weeks to craft a comprehensive design and development plan for that site. After finalists are narrowed, the jury of interdisciplinary experts in architecture and land use then selects a winning team. Previous winners have included student teams from the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, the University of California Berkeley, and a joint team from North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...
and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Publications
In addition to an Annual Report, the Urban Land Institute publishes books, reports, and magazines from its own research as well as members within the organization. Along with its flagship magazine, Urban Land, other notable publications have included The Community Builders Handbook, Emerging Trends in Real Estate, The Homeowners Association Handbook, Advisory Service Panel reports and their annual Infrastructure report.Magazines
The Urban Land Institute first began publishing its flagship magazine, Urban LandUrban Land
Urban Land is magazine published by the Urban Land Institute. It covers international issues related to the needs of land use and development professionals....
, in 1941. Currently, the magazine prints six editions per calendar year and is made available only to the institute's membership. It publishes articles on a variety of land use and commercial real estate topics affecting industry professionals. Over the years, the institute has published other limited-run magazine titles, including Multifamily Trends and Urban Land Green. In 2010, the institute launched an online version of Urban Land magazine.
Annual reports
Currently, there are two annually produced Urban Land Institute research reports. The Emerging Trends in Real Estate® series, which was started in 1979, was originally produced by the Real Estate Research Corporation. In 2004, the Urban Land Institute and Pricewaterhouse Coopers took over publication of the report. The report has received much attention in the media and is viewed as the industry's premier annual forecast for real estate finance, development trends, and capital markets. . Each year, there are three reports produced for three different regions: the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe.In addition, the Urban Land Institute Infrastructure Initiative publishes an annual infrastructure report. Since 2007, with the support of Ernst & Young, the Urban Land Institute has produced an annual report that highlights trends and issues on a range of infrastructure topics. Since the first issue of the report in 2007, the Infrastructure report receives considerable coverage in both the national and local media.
Books
Since its founding, ULI has published numerous books on land use issues. In the early decades of the institute, ULI's Technical Bulletin Series made up the majority of its publications. The first issue of the series, Mistakes We Have Made in Community Development, by J.C. Nichols was published in 1945. A few years later, in 1947, The Community Builders Handbook was published. The New York Times listed it as one the year's top books in planning and real estate.Throughout the years of the institute, ULI has produced other noteworthy publications including The City Fights Back (1954), The Dollars & Cents of Shopping Centers series (first published in 1961) and The Homes Association Handbook (1964). Recent publications have included Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI Guide to Business (2003), Real Estate Development: Principles and Process (2007), Growing Cooler (2008), and Real Estate Market Analysis: Methods and Case Studies (2009).
See also
- Real estate developmentReal estate developmentReal estate development, or Property Development, is a multifaceted business, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of improved land or parcels to others...
- urban planningUrban planningUrban planning incorporates areas such as economics, design, ecology, sociology, geography, law, political science, and statistics to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities....
- green developmentGreen developmentGreen development is a land use planning concept that includes consideration of community-wide or regional environmental implications of development, as well as site-specific green building concepts...
- housingHousingHousing may refer to:* A House* Social or public housing* Enclosure containing some equipment or mechanism*House dance...