The following is an excerpt from Designed for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World by Jared Green, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2015.
Idea: Build the community [...]
The Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use has selected ten public officials to receive scholarships to attend the ULI Fall Meeting in San Francisco, October 5-8. The winners, all [...]
Bridj is a limousine startup company that tries to make commuting more efficient through a system based on ride sharing and dynamic data about where customers are—and where they want to go. It [...]
Each year, the ULI Rose Center for Public Leadership selects leaders from four large American cities to participate in the Daniel Rose Fellowship, a yearlong peer exchange program. Each [...]
Welcoming attendees to the ULI Spring Meeting in Houston, Mayor Annise Parker said that the lessons learned by Houstonians have resonance across the United States. “One of the things that I very [...]
Every American suburb has them. They feature fast-moving traffic, congested intersections, low density, and quite often lower-end real estate development. Pedestrians, cyclists, and transit [...]
When Bill Peduto took over as Pittsurgh’s mayor in 2014, the city’s construction regulatory process was still paper-based, but that wasn’t the half of it. Inspectors didn’t have office computers, [...]
The front page of today's Houston Chronicle Business section features a photo of three Rose Fellow mayors and National League of Cities Executive Director Clarence Anthony, along with coverage of [...]
WalkDenver Chair Gideon Berger argues that Denver needs to invest in a more pedestrian-friendly future.
In 1903, Vermont physician Horatio Nelson Jackson was visiting San Francisco when he got [...]
Urban planning experts and city officials are canvassing sections of Jamaica Plain this week, formulating a plan for the future of the Washington Street corridor, an area that has already seen a [...]