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The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit research and education organization supported by its members. 
Urban Land Institute has been working on smart growth issues for 63 years through their mission of providing responsible leadership in the use of land to enhance the total environment.
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) San Diego/Tijuana Chapter today presented its first annual Smart Growth Awards program at the Omni Hotel to recognize efforts in San Diego County to develop buildings and communities that accommodate growth in ways that are economically sound, environmentally responsible and supportive of community livability. Award categories include Smart Growth Visionary, Smart Growth Project and Smart Growth Plan.
Smart Growth Visionary Award 2005
Ed McMahon
ULI San Diego/Tijuana Chapter invites you to:
Only two weeks remain until the first homes are offered for purchase on June 25 at Aloft on Cortez Hill, located at the highest point in downtown San Diego. The serenity of this elevated perspective combined with downtown's surrounding cultural, sports, dining and shopping offerings, has earned Aloft the description of "urban retreat."
With Living Smart, Pardee Homes brings a whole new concept in homeownership to buyers who purchase new homes at all their North County communities. The program combines features and options that are environmentally sensitive, energy conscious and just plain healthier, and it pairs them with exceptional architecture and functional design.
As infrastructure improvements reach the 50 percent mark at Liberty Station, the city of San Diego's Redevelopment Agency and The Corky McMillin Companies are taking pains to ensure that this new community at San Diego's former Naval Training Center becomes a model of smart growth in the region.
The final design details and luxurious appointments are being added to the model kitchen and bath now being completed at The Mark's sales studio. The Mark, a $155 million mixed-use project, is downtown San Diego's newest and most sophisticated high-rise condominium project.
San Elijo Hills, an award-winning master-planned community in San Marcos, has reclaimed a number of town planning principles from the 1920s and '30s, when communities were built with the needs of pedestrians at the forefront.
Downtown El Cajon, which is undergoing a revival of sophisticated shops such as a new Starbucks Coffee with its very popular espresso and caffé au lait, is just three blocks from the gated condominium community of Artesia.
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A weekend trip to the Oregon coast gave Kaichang Li an idea that is revolutionizing the wood manufacturing industry and will mean cleaner air indoors and out.
The sheer size and glamour of the 74-story Met 3 condo tower in Miami should be enough to bring in buyers. But with more than 50,000 condos in development in the city right now, what really sets Met 3 apart is the Whole Foods Market that fills its ground floor.
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- Rapid development in the Phoenix metropolitan area is changing the ecology of the desert, Arizona State University scientists say.
NEW YORK -- If a time traveler from a hundred years ago were to visit a home today, much of the technology would be completely alien. The television, cordless phone and computer would probably leave him flabbergasted.
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Schools, universities and other public buildings in the state would have to be built to meet energy efficiency, water conservation and other environmental standards under a bill given final approval by the Washington Legislature on Wednesday.
Find out about new developments, mixed-use projects, green building materials and techniques and more in this special section.
San Diego County is continually faced with a scarcity of developable land, spurring interest in "smart growth." In this report, The Daily Transcript examines plans that lay ahead for our region's smart growth development.
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