Big Winner - Atlanta wins City of the Future Contest

Imagine you’re stuck in Atlanta traffic. A maze of cars, asphalt, powerlines, and skyscrapers is the vista du jour. Fast forward 100 years from now and a radically different view will include lush forests, green spaces, and pristine waterways. At least that’s the hope of some of the nation’s leading designers, architects, and engineers.

Green Push - Liberty finds sustainability is good business

In May 2001, Liberty Property Trust announced that it was building a 58-story property on a site it had acquired a year earlier in downtown Philadelphia. The Malvern, Pa.-based REIT expected the more than $500 million project to be its first venture into sustainability.

by Les Shaver

Developer News & Notes

Sustainability, Market Trends, Energy Efficiency, an Executive Q&A on Mixed-Use Properties and more…

New Urbanism: Amelia Park

Memories can be a powerful trigger. Builder Joel Embry never forgot his childhood growing up in Quincy, Fla., a small American city just 21 miles northwest of Tallahassee that is filled with Victorian houses and Southern flavor.

Carbon emissions and greenhouse gas studies in new developments

During hearings to review Plum Creek Timber Co.’s massive housing development in Maine’s north woods, the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission posed a thought-provoking question to the Seattle-based developer: What’s the carbon footprint of your new project?