Urban Land Institute imprint: 39 books

This book contains the information needed to accurately estimate parking requirements for a mixed-use center. Essential for government planners, developers, and architects, it helps to determine how many parking spaces are needed for a new development based on the types of tenants it will attract.

Completely revised and updated, the fifth edition of this bestselling textbook covers each stage of the real estate development process, explaining the basics of idea conception, feasibility, planning, financing, market analysis, contract negotiation, construction, marketing, and asset management....

Get practical how-to information on designing and developing attractive, profitable, and environmentally responsible planned communities. This book includes 10 case studies of successful projects in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia

Richly illustrated with color photographs, site plans, and diagrams, this book explains how to design and develop pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use developments.

This comprehensive book is a practical how-to guide to developing hot retail projects such as lifestyle centers, mixed-use centers, and rehabs of failed malls. Project sizes range from small, ethnic-oriented community centers to major multilevel malls.

While many American development firms today are very large and corporate in nature, many entrepreneurs who want to pursue their own development dreams and interests create new firms each year. Small-scale projects involve basically the same development process as that for a large project—engaging...

Taking a practical approach to planning and designing streets in master-planned, new urbanist, and other subdivisions, this book offers a fresh look at street widths, geometrics, traffic flow, intersections, drainage systems, and pavement.

Based on a series of interviews with key leaders of Europe’s real estate development industry, this book offers wisdom and lessons learned through decades of experience. It provides guidance for surviving the inevitable downturns and taking advantage of rising economies. Future leaders of the industry...

This book explains in plain terms how developers and planners can involve the community in the development process using the latest community engagement tools. It describes why, in these days of more complex projects and development approval procedures, it pays to win citizen support rather than fight opposition.

Illustrated in full color, this authoritative resource explains best practices, techniques, and trends in multifamily housing developments.