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