Development may refer to:
Land use
- Green development, a concept that includes consideration of community-wide or regional environmental implications
- Land development, altering the landscape in any number of ways
- Mixed-use development, the practice of allowing more than one type of use in a building or set of buildings
- Real estate development, a business encompassing activities from renovation to the purchase of raw land
- Subdivision (land), or a development, a piece of land divided from a larger portion for sale or further development
- Urban planning, or development, integrates land use planning and transportation planning to improve communities
- Transit-oriented development, a mixed-use residential or commercial area designed to maximize access to public transport
Science and technology
- Artificial development, an area of computer science and engineering
- Development (differential geometry), the process of rolling one surface over another
- Development (journal), an academic journal in developmental biology
- Development (topology), a countable collection of open coverings
- Developmental biology, the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop
- Drug development, the entire process of bringing a new drug or device to the market
- Embryogenesis, or development, the process by which the embryo is formed
- Energy development, the effort to provide sufficient primary energy sources
- Human development (biology), the process of growing to maturity
- Prenatal development, the process in which a human embryo or fetus gestates during pregnancy
- Child development, the biological, psychological, and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence
- Youth development, the process through which adolescents acquire the cognitive, social, and emotional skills and abilities required to navigate life
- Neural development, the processes that generate, shape, and reshape the nervous system
- Photographic development, the chemical means by which exposed photographic film or paper is processed to produce a visible image
- Research and development, work aiming to increase knowledge
- Software development, the development of a software product
- Tooth development or odontogenesis
- Web development, work involved in developing a web site
Social science
- Development studies, social science which addresses issues of concern to developing countries
- Development geography, geography with reference to the standard of living and quality of life of human inhabitants
- Developmental psychology, the scientific study of systematic psychological, emotional, and perception changes over life spans
- Community development, the practices and academic disciplines to improve various aspects of local communities
- Sociocultural evolution, how cultures and societies have changed over time
- Economic development, the economic aspect of social change
- Human development (humanity), an international and economic development paradigm
- Human development theory, a theory that merges older ideas from ecological economics, sustainable development, welfare economics, and feminist economics
- Rural development, actions and initiatives taken to improve the standard of living in non-Urban neighborhoods, countryside, and remote villages
- Social development, processes of change in societies
- Sustainable development, a pattern of resources use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment
International and regional
- Regional development, the provision of aid and other assistance to regions which are less economically developed
- Multilateral development bank
- European Development Fund, an instrument for European Community aid
- Development aid, the provision of assistance to developing countries
- Economic development, the sustained, concerted effort of policymakers and community to promote the standard of living and economic health in a specific area
- Human Development Index, used to rank countries by level of "human development"
- International development, the development of greater quality of life for humans
Business and professional
- Business development, a process of growing a business
- Career development, which as several meanings
- Corporate development, a position in a business
- Development & Commerce Bank (now called RHB Bank)
- Fundraising, soliciting voluntary contributions to an organization or prospective organization
- Training and development, organizational activity aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in organizational settings
- Leadership development, activities that enhances the quality of leadership within an individual or organization
- New product development, the complete process of bringing a new product to market
- Organization development, a conceptual, organization-wide effort to increase an organization's effectiveness and viability
- Personal development or self-help
- Professional development, skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement
Music
- Development (album), a 2002 nu-metal album by musical group Nonpoint
- Musical development, a compositional process
Other
- Characterisation including character development
- Develop, term used in Chess
- Development of doctrine, a term used by John Henry Newman to describe Catholic teachings
- Development hell, media industry term for when a project is stuck in development
- Development of religion, the various stages in the evolution of any particular religion or religious system
- Driver development program is a program used by racing teams to develop younger drivers
- Components of the "development" phase in film making
- Film finance
- Film budgeting
- Green-light
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902)