Architectural Cognition in Practice

- Prof Dr Christoph Hoelscher, Asst Prof Dr Panos Mavros and Dr Leonel Aguilar visited ACP-Singapore.

- The team hosted 'Health and Wellbeing in the City: Cognition, Behaviour and Emotion' – a symposium held at the URA. The event drew together over 50 people from research and practice, including government agencies, urban planners, architects and researchers from industry, as well as academics spanning behavioural/cognitive science, design and computer science.

Semantic Urban Elements: Linking Urban Analytics, Design, and Usage for Cyber-Physical Cities

- Filip Biljecki gave invited talks at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US Department of Energy), Geospatial Science and Human Security Division and at the Climate Change AI Summer School

Dense and Green Cities

- DEN PhD researcher, Anjanaa Srikanth presented a poster at the Create Symposium 2024 this week. The poster was titled 'Spatial Network Analysis - based Methods to Analyse Pedestrian Movement in Multilevel Environments'.

- Sri was invited by NParks and URA to be part of the Jury Panel for the Raffles Place Park Design Competition. Raffles Place Park is a key public space cum park in the Central Business District (CBD). The rejuvenation of the park is part of the larger efforts to rejuvenate the CBD and reposition it into a more mixed-use and vibrant precinct, characterised by good quality public spaces/parks. The judging will take place in October/November 2024.

- Sri has been invited by URA to be on Jury Panel for Design Competition for Queensway Node along the Rail Corridor, Singapore. The proposal is to develop the Queensway node into an active community space and is one of a number of new community nodes that are being planned along the length of the Rail Corridor. The judging will take place in November 2024.

Agropolitan Territories of Monsoon Asia

- ongoing development of AGURA atlas and agropolitan field guide.

Potential Agriterritories: Agrarian Questions under Planetary Urbanisation and Agroecological Transitions

- Assist. Prof. Dr. Naomi C. Hanakata and Dr. Hiromi Inagaki presented our ongoing work on regional-scale implications of decarbonization in Southeast Asia at the poster session of the CREATE Symposium on 22 July 2024.

Adaptive Mobility, Land Use and Infrastructure

- Orlando Roman presented his work on developing a Land Use Transport Interaction (LUTI) model for the Canton of Zürich to explore the implications of reallocating ~30% of road space to cycling under multiple potential future scenarios of population, economic growth and travel behaviour at the Symposium on Applied Urban Modelling (AUM) in Cambridge, England on June 25th.  

- Orlando Roman presented his work on using computational models to explore future scenarios and gain insights for urban planning: the case of the technological shift in transportation in Singapore at the AESOP - Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress in Paris on July 11th.

- Dr Qiming Ye, Dr Canh Xuan Do, Prof Dr Prateek Bansal and Prof Dr Bryan Adey presented (standing) their poster titled 'Smart and Green Urban Mobility in Singapore via Shared and Electric Transport' on the 2024 CREATE symposium on July 22nd.

The Sea-​City Interface

- Research activities go fine - Qian Cao submitted her PhD's QE report

Comparative Ecology of Cities

- Yeshan Qiu presented her research about urban patterns and bird biodiversity at the CREATE Symposium (poster session).

- Yue Zhu submitted a revised version of her manuscript to the Science of the Total Environment.

- Naika Meili submitted her manuscript on tree effects on the energy demand for space cooling and dehumidification.

- The team has started preparing a review paper on urban patterns and functions.

- Our colleague Yue Zhu who is now based in Zurich will join the Singapore team from October onwards.