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Newsletter "FCL-G Weekly Update 28" - issued on July 11, 2025

(L-R) Project Officer Eugene Soh, Assoc Prof Hortense Le Ferrand, and Research Fellow Dr Jia Heng Teoh.
(L-R) Project Officer Eugene Soh, Assoc Prof Hortense Le Ferrand, and Research Fellow Dr Jia Heng Teoh.

Module Updates and News

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

  • The PI Filip Biljecki gave a presentation at the Harbin Institute of Technology.

Circular Future Cities

  • Last two weeks were full of dissemination opportunities for the CFC team. Two weeks ago, CFC members (Bibek Gupta, Kamila Krych, and Carlo Schmid) held oral presentations at the Sustainable Built Environment conference in Zurich, presenting their research on various aspects of circularity in buildings.
  • Last week, multiple CFC researchers participated in the ISIE 2025 conference in Singapore. CFC hosted a special session titled "From Urban Mining to Urban Harvesting – Harnessing Digital Tools for Valued, Plannable, and Trusted Resources for Circular Future Cities", which included several talks followed by small-group discussions gathering over 45 international researchers. During the conference, multiple CFC researchers presented their work in oral presentations and posters, e.g., “Built Afterlife: A Web Tool for Exploring the Circular Potential of Buildings” by Bibek Gupta and colleagues.
  • A conference paper titled “A Graph-Based Prediction Model for Sustainable Urban Renewal: Integrating Graph Convolutional Networks for Concrete Recycling Potential Evaluation”, authored by Haoyang He, Han Li, Wanyu Pei, Shuyang Li, and Rudi Stouffs, was presented at the CAAD Futures conference held in Hong Kong last week. The paper was selected for presentation in the “Speaker-led Special Collection Paper Session” and will be published in the “Special Collection Proceedings”.

Adaptive Mobility, Land Use and Infrastructure

  • Dr Qiming Ye (Postdoctoral Researcher, FCL ETH Zurich), Assistant Professor Dr Prateek Bansal (National University of Singapore), and Professor Dr Bryan T. Adey (ETH Zurich) had been invited to present their latest research at the 12th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN XII), held in Okinawa, Japan, from 22–27 June 2025. TRISTAN is a prestigious symposium held every three years, serving as a platform for advancing methodological research in transportation science and operations research. Their study was selected through a competitive process, ranking among the top 151 papers from 496 submissions representing 50 countries and regions. Dr Qiming Ye presented the work, which proposes a reinforcement learning-based framework for long-term, city-scale deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure under deep uncertainty in travel and charging demand. Assistant Professor Prateek Bansal chaired the "Reinforcement Learning" session, which also featured contributions from Assistant Professor Dr Manxi Wu (UC Berkeley) and Dr Yang Deng (Tsinghua University & City University of Hong Kong), who presented their latest research.

News and Views

Future Cities Laboratory Global

  • A cross-module collaboration: Goran Sibenik (Postdoc in [CFC]), Chenyi Cai (Postdoc in [SUE]), and Andrea Bartolini (Postdoc from FRS) are Guest Editors of the special issue of the smart cities journal on 'BIM Applications for Smart Sustainable Cities. The purpose of this Special Issue is to highlight the importance of BIM applications in the smart sustainable cities, and it expands the understanding of the application of BIM from individual-building scale topics to its true use as a knowledge base that can be easily scaled to the urban level and that can contribute to a wider community beyond a single building. Learn more about the special issue here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/smartcities/special_issues/H5RGP0000I 

Attached Events

FCL 23. July 2025 Public Event

[DEN] Dense and Green Cities Singapore Research Completion and Book Launch

Join us to celebrate the completion of the Dense and Green Cities research and the launch of the book Dense+Green Urban Development.

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FCL 04. September 2025 09:30h Public Event

Future Cities: Science, Design, and Policy for Urban Transitions Symposium & Exhibition Singapore 2025

Join us on 4 September at the National Design Centre for thought-provoking keynotes and panel discussions, followed by research presentations on 5 September at the CREATE ...

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