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One cannot choose how one finishes the race, only how one runs it. I would not have chosen a long, slow slide into complete heart failure, but I tried to cope with it with “gaiety, courage and a [...]

For midsized U.S. cities to compete successfully in the 21st-century global marketplace, it is crucial for governments to think beyond the tired strategy of luring away employers from other [...]

Among ULI members who were recognized at the 2015 Fall Meeting in San Francisco for their contributions to the Advisory Services program was Bill Hudnut, former mayor of Indianapolis and former [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

In today’s Mayors’ Panel, moderator Ed Glaeser, author of The Triumph of the City, opened the conversation by asking the four assembled mayors what about Paris they most wish they could take home [...]

Members of the 2013-2014 class of Daniel Rose Fellows — leaders from the cities of Honolulu, Indianapolis, Ind., Memphis, Tenn. and Portland, Ore. —traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area in December.