Land use

• Land development
• Green development, a concept that includes consideration of community-wide or regional environmental implications
• Land development bank, a type of Indian bank which promotes the development of land and agriculture

Arts and entertainment

• Video game development, a creative process of developing a video game
• Development (album), a 2002 nu-metal album by musical group Nonpoint
• Musical development, a compositional process
• Developing (film), a 1994 short film by Marya Cohn starring Natalie Portman
• Characterisation, in narratives, including character development
• Filmmaking "development" phase, including finance and budgeting