Urban Land

Urban Land

"Urban Land" is a monthly publication of the Urban Land Institute.

The publication focuses on the information needs of land use and development professionals worldwide, providing them with timely, objective, practical, and accessible articles on a wide variety of subjects related to their professional interests. The magazine emphasizes development issues and opportunities and discusses solutions to land use and development problems in line with the global mission of its publisher, the Urban Land Institute, to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.

Urban land was defined by the Oxford Popular Dictionary & Thesaurus as ‘Built up metropolitan suburban’ land.

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*cite web | title=Urban Land Institute Home Page | url=http://www.uli.org |accessdate=2007-10-30


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