[CEC] Comparative Ecology of Cities Symposium

The inevitability of increasing urbanisation and the attendant problems it creates place an urgent demand on our ability to shape current and future urban development using a science-based approach to urban planning. The CEC project is centered on the proposition that understanding urban pattern-process-function relationships provides valuable knowledge to advance the science of urban planning. However, this has thus far remained relatively unexplored and under-utilised in practice. The project builds upon emerging theoretical and empirical evidence that patterns of human settlement systems (urban patterns) shape social and ecological processes (urban processes), and such processes, in turn, dictate the key demands of urban living such as social relations, mobility, economic exchanges, bioenvironment, ecological conditions, etc. (urban functions). The project investigates pattern-process-function relationships across cities to address research questions aligned to FCL Global’s aims of developing solutions to guide sustainable urbanization, for humans, the environment and biodiversity.

PIs:

Prof. Dr. TAN Puay Yok, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Prof. Dr. Paolo BURLANDO, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Co-Is:

Prof. Dr. Simone FATICHI, National University of Singapore, Singapore    

Assoc. Prof. HWANG Yun Hye, National University of Singapore, Singapore                    

Assoc. Prof. Dr. ZHANG Ye, Tsinghua University, China                       

Dr. Daniel RICHARDS, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, New Zealand

Collaborators:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mark MCDONNELL, University of Melbourne, Australia

Prof. Dr. YANG Jun, Tsinghua University, China

Asst. Prof. Dr. Gabriele MANOLI, EPFL, Switzerland

Dr. Brenda LIN, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia

Dr. Amy HAHS, University of Melbourne, Australia

Researchers: Dr. Dengkai CHI, Dr. Naika MEILI, Dr. Yue ZHU, Yeshan QIU, Jing WANG