Ten Urban Development Innovations That Will Change How We Live and Work by 2030

Real estate development tends to be marketed and sold using the language of neighborhood elevation. This year's Most Innovative Companies in real estate and urban development also aimed to improve and redefine communities, but they often worked in a different direction, and at a different scale, than your typical mega-district.

Take Downtown Cary Park in Cary, North Carolina, from OJB Architects. The innovative park mixes the increasingly critical need for flood control with progressive visions for public space, ultimately creating a living room for a growing metro.

Communities come in various forms. In Santa Monica, California, Gensler’s rapid renovation of an empty department store created a new high school for students displaced by wildfire. In Manhattan, JPMorganChase's towering new headquarters redefined the office for white-collar workers. And in Toronto, a multiuse block by Anishnawbe Health Toronto and developers Dream Unlimited, Kilmer Group and Tricon Residential created a catalytic center for the Indigenous community.

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