The East Village neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO), was the study site for the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) 19th annual ULI / Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. This educational initiative, open to graduate-level students, is an exercise to encourage innovative ideas and cross-disciplinary collaboration and provides an opportunity to devise a comprehensive design and development program for an actual large-scale urban site. This year, 105 teams — 525 students — representing 61 universities in the United States, Canada, and Singapore competed, including 34 teams with students from more than one university. Get all the details on this year’s competition below!