Development

Development has meaning in several contexts:

Engineering

• Land improvement and/or construction involving land, buildings or infrastructure (see project, public housing and real estate development); excessive development of this kind may lead to overdevelopment
  • Urban development is the process of developing populated settlements (see urban planning and urban renewal)
• New product development
• Software development (disambiguation)
  • The development branch of a piece of software
• Sustainable development seeks a holistic notion of development encompassing environmental and social as well as economic aspects
• Technology development, improving or researching changes in technology (e.g. involving biotechnology, nanotechnology, or software)

Natural science

• Biological development or morphogenesis of embryos in the context of developmental biology
• Development (journal) published twice monthly by the Company of Biologists.
• Child development, in the context of physical development, or post-natal human development (pediatrics, etc.).

Social science and politics

Psychology

• Developmental psychology is the study of human psychological development.
• Human development

Social development

• Social development, processes of change in societies
• Economic development, the economic aspect of social change
• Sociocultural evolution or cultural development
• Sustainable development
  • Community development
• Development studies, the multidisciplinary social scientific study of development

International and regional development

• International development, the process of economic and social development in developing countries
• Development aid, the provision of aid and other forms of assistance to communities or countries
• Development aid agencies
• Development charities
• Regional development, provision of aid and assistance to the less economically developed regions

Personal and professional improvement

• Career development
• Leadership development
• Personal development, the development of the self (see also self-help)
• Professional development

Business

• Business development, a process of growing a business
• Corporate development, a position in a business
• Employee development (see also human resources)
• New product development (above)
• Organization development (see also training and development)

Arts and popular culture

• Arrested Development (TV series), a television show based upon a company and a family
• Arrested Development (hip hop group), a hip hop group popular in the early 1990s.
• Development (album), a nu-metal album by musical group Nonpoint
• Musical development, the transformation and restatement of initial material, often contrasted with musical variation
• Photographic developer, or more generally photographic processing, the chemicals and methods of revealing the latent image in photographic material
• Script development, the development process in movie making, aimed at getting a project greenlighted

Mathematics

• Net (polyhedron) in geometry, the development of a polyhedral solid
• Development (differential geometry), the process of rolling one surface over another, and generalizations of this idea, including:
  • Parallel transport, the development of geometric data along curves
  • Developable surfaces, surfaces which are developments of (i.e., isometric to) the plane
• Development (topology), a refinable net of open coverings.

Other

• develop, Apple Computer's programming magazine
• a synonym for fundraising

Related pages

• Developer
• Development geography