What 5G Wireless Technology Will Mean for Real Estate
The next-generation wireless telecommunications technology known as 5G, which will operate at vastly higher speeds and be able to handle many times more devices than existing 4G networks, is likely to...
View ArticlePeople-Driven Design: Planning for the Urban Future of Autonomous Vehicles
In this rendering, a tree-lined boulevard allows for both pedestrian and autonomous vehicle traffic to safely intermingle. (HOK) By the early 2020s, a significant number of cars with self-driving...
View ArticleTakeaways from London’s Shifting Perspective on Mobility and Development
Rather than being siloed as strictly transportation initiatives, urban mobility projects and policies are increasingly being viewed in part as economic investment. London is a prime example of this...
View ArticleWhen Is a Public/Private Partnership the Right Choice?
Between 2016 and 2025, state and local governments are projected to spend an estimated $1.88 trillion on building and rebuilding public infrastructure. But the American Society of Civil Engineers...
View ArticleTwo Infrastructure Projects Hope to Reshape a Growing Miami
A rendering of the Florida Department of Transportation’s proposed “signature bridge,” which is intended to replace the current exchange connecting Interstate 395, State Road 836, and Interstate 95 in...
View ArticlePlanning for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development in Sacramento
ULI Advisory Services panel members tour the Florin Road transit station. (Phil Kampbel/ULI) A ULI Advisory Services panel toured South Sacramento, California, in September, meeting with more than 75...
View ArticleBacking China’s Big Bet on Smart Cities
Wei Baisong, chief technical officer and chief product officer, Ping An, speaking at the ULI Asia Pacific Leadership Convivium in Shenzhen, China. China’s largest insurer is backing the nation’s...
View ArticleBuilding a Multimodal Future: New Book Explores Transportation Demand...
Transportation demand management (TDM) policies that require access to travel options as part of the development process can be highly effective in the creation of communities that provide mixed-use,...
View ArticleP3s: A Practical Solution for Improving Public Infrastructure
A discussion on public/private partnerships (PPPs or P3s) among experts from Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States was convened in October during the ULI Fall Meeting in Boston....
View ArticleHow Atlanta Real Estate Leads the Way on Big Infrastructure
(Joey Kyber on Unsplash) In many American downtown areas and commercial centers, improvement districts are used as tools for revitalization, placemaking, and economic development. They improve the...
View ArticleLinking Connectivity to Livability and Better-Planned Cities
Tim Stonor, managing director of Space Syntax, speaking at the ULI Asia Pacific Leadership Convivium in Singapore. Improved connectivity leads to better cities and more profitable buildings, and data...
View ArticleHong Kong Adopts Two-Envelope Tendering for Prime Waterfront Site
This article was first published in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. The Hong Kong government’s recent decision to embrace a new tendering process for the sale of a prime parcel of waterfront land...
View ArticleThree U.S. ‘Highway Cap’ Projects Reckoning with Urban Inequity
ULI Advisory Services panelists tour area businesses near where the highway cap would be put in place in St. Paul. Beginning in the 1950s, the Interstate Highway System began to span the continent,...
View ArticleULI Launches Curtis Infrastructure Initiative, Promoting Solutions in Cities...
Generous donation from the late James J. Curtis III, former ULI Foundation chairman, will help identify and promote infrastructure solutions in cities globally. ULI has announced the launch of the...
View ArticleDestination Crenshaw: A Model for Community Engagement in Los Angeles
(Perkins & Will) Destination Crenshaw, a transformative 1.3-mile (2 km) infrastructure project scheduled to open in fall 2022, was the focus of a ULI-LA virtual event in July—Connection Before...
View ArticleULI Conducts Global Member Infrastructure Survey
A survey conducted this spring by the ULI Curtis Infrastructure Initiative found that while ULI members disagree about what exactly constitutes infrastructure, there is broad agreement that...
View ArticleU.S. Infrastructure Legislation Provides Generational Opportunity to Drive...
(Shutterstock) The recently approved $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure financing package provides the real estate industry with a once-in-a-generation base to build on for projects and communities,...
View ArticleNew ULI Framework on How Infrastructure Investment Can Yield Equitable,...
Real estate developers and policymakers can promote equity, environmental resilience, and economic mobility by investing in forward-looking infrastructure, according to a new report from ULI. The...
View ArticleIn Audio: Not Just Wires, Pipes, and Roads
Michael Spotts, a senior visiting research fellow at ULI’s Terwiliger Center for Housing and head of Neighborhood Fundamentals, recently appeared on the Talking Headways podcast. Spotts chats with us...
View ArticleTapping Federal Funds to Bring Equitable Infrastructure to St. Paul’s Rondo...
Panelists tour area businesses near where the highway cap would be put in place. (Sarah Graham/ULI) The story of St. Paul, Minnesota’s Rondo neighborhood has echoes in the development of dozens of...
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