ULI Hawaii

09/19/2016

This is a key community design principle that promotes public health and helps curb the demand for land consuming private yards - A variety of great public spaces.

See more at Urban Land Institute's initiative: https://goo.gl/5DaoAV

09/16/2016

How to revitalize economically weak and unsafe areas. Community and experts working together. https://goo.gl/6X0uap

How can outdated retail and auto-dominated strips be transformed into corridors that are safe, healthy, vibrant, and mixed-use? Learn more at http://uli.org/healthycorridors.

09/01/2016

Filmed October 6, 2015, at the ULI Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Airbnb began in 2008, when two designers who had space to share hosted three travelers look...

08/26/2016

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"While sustainability refers to specific actions that property owners can take to lower a building’s carbon emissions—reducing energy and water use and relying on renewable sources of power—resilience refers to managing and preparing for outcomes like sea-level rise that are inevitable at this point."

Read the article from UrbanLand Magazine here: goo.gl/sVptcS

08/22/2016

Employers, developers, city officials can all contribute to making biking work. See Urban Land Institute's Toolkit strategy #4 below.

For more see http://bhptoolkit.uli.org.

08/18/2016

These are pretty creative!

See all of the developments here: http://goo.gl/cTOQhN

More & more people in less & less space. Architects are getting creative about how to make small condos healthy & homey without a space consuming yard.

See 10 innovative developments around the world from Urban Land Magazine: http://goo.gl/cTOQhN. Some are a little overwhelming.

08/15/2016

Streets just have to be safe and comfortable to work for all ages. Toolkit recommendation 3 from Urban Land Institute.

This is also a major project for AARP Hawaii. Read more at goo.gl/5DaoAV

08/11/2016

Streets for people, not cars. This is for our health & the environment.

2nd recommendation from ULI's "Building Healthy Places Toolkit". from Urban Land Institute

08/09/2016

In case you missed this Urban Land Institute 2015 publication, be sure to check it out. It's a collection of 21 recommendations to developers, architects, planners, & public officials on how to build healthy communities.

The video below gives a peek at recommendation 1. See the full publication at goo.gl/wvEIDC.

This effort is aimed at organizations that design, finance, and build our communities. It parallels efforts such as Blue Zones , which is active in Hawai`i.

07/26/2016

With water becoming an increasingly valuable resource, more emphasis is being placed on capturing and retaining rainwater and graywater.

07/25/2016

Public officials - this is a fantastic deal to the best convention of its kind. Public officials from Hawai`i go every year, so be sure not to be left out.

Now accepting scholarship applications for public officials to attend the ULI Fall Meeting in Dallas. The scholarships will include complimentary registration and up to $2,000 expense reimbursement for transportation and lodging. http://on.uli.org/XUBX302rxmF