Planning & Design

Recent Articles

• ULX: Just Add Transit

  05-02-13

  Ten transit centers exemplify strategies for inserting new facilities and expanding existing ones in a densifying urban landscape.

• Apgar Award Winners Announced

  04-29-13

  ULI has announced the recipients of the 2013 ULI Apgar Urban Land Award, an honor that recognizes industry articles of practical value in Urban Land magazine. Selected articles from the previous calendar year – authored by Jason S. Hellendrung, principal, Urban Studio at Sasaki and Howard J. Kozloff, managing partner, Agora Partners – will both be honored next month at the ULI Spring Meeting in San Diego.

• A U.S. Template for a Third-Millennium City

  04-23-13

  In 40 years, the U.S. population will grow 36 percent to 438 million in 2050 from 322 million today. At today’s average of 2.58 persons per household, such growth would require 44.9 million new homes. Where and how will the new American homes be built? What urban structures are to be created?

• Imagining Land Use in 2063

  04-22-13

  How different will land use be in 50 years? While some futurists think suburban tract house and the shopping mall will have gone the way of the dinosaurs, others envision a strikingly different scenario, in which people increasingly will forsake the cities for the rural countryside living in updated, technologically advanced, and economically self-sufficient versions of the 19th-century village.

• Civita: San Diego’s New City within the City

  04-19-13

  The Civita mixed-use development is a model for San Diego’s “City of Villages” planning strategy. But the development’s progressive ideas blazed new territory, and nearly a decade passed before the developer obtained approvals to begin construction.

• Kansas State University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and the University of Kansas Team Wins Hines Design Competition

  04-15-13

  A joint team of graduate students representing Kansas State University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and the University of Kansas has been selected as the winner of the 2013 Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. This three-university team took the $50,000 top prize with their proposed long-term development plan for a downtown Minneapolis site adjacent to the new Minnesota Vikings Stadium location.

• Case Study: San Diego Central Library

  04-12-13

  Funded by the California State Library, Centre City Development, the San Diego Unified School District, and private donors the nine-story library will feature a 350-seat auditorium, three-story domed reading room, 400-seat multipurpose room, and underground parking for 250 vehicles. The sixth and seventh floors will be used as a charter high school, with its own ground-level entrance and lobby, elevators, and stairwell.

• When Legacies Bind: How to Avoid Urban Lock-in

  04-12-13

  Just as the cities of today are living with choices made long ago, so should people be aware that today’s decisions and technologies will shape the urban spaces that serve future generations, says Steve Rayner, co­­director of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities.

• Keeping the Lid on D.C.: Build Better, Not Just Bigger

  03-15-13

  ULI fellow Ed McMahon makes the case for keeping the building height limit in Washington, D.C., where it is.

• ULX: Technical Beauty

  02-26-13

  Ten projects incorporate unconventional technical strategies to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and aesthetics.

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