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URA Healthy Cities Urban Lab Exhibition featuring Elderly Life Activity-Space: Environmental, Health and Social Factors Determining Senior Life Spaces in the Community (EASE)
Discover more about Elderly Life Activity-Space: Environmental, Health and Social Factors Determining Senior Life Spaces in the Community (EASE) at the latest URA Healthy Cities Urban Lab Exhibition “Well-Being in the City: Innovating Healthy Living”, 1 Apr– 31 May 2025, URA Centre Atrium.
What’s a bus shelter doing in a dementia ward in Singapore?
The Straits Times explores why a bus shelter stands at the heart of a dementia ward. Dr Sarah Chan from LKYCIC shares that the use of a landmark like a bus shelter in a dementia ward serves as a navigational aid.
MOU with the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC)
SUTD signed an MOU with the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) of the Ministry of National Development. In this MOU CLC and SUTD seek to foster deeper collaboration in key areas, including Innovative Cities, Healthy Cities, Regenerative Cities, Mobility and Urban Liveability. SUTD’s cutting-edge research in design, artificial intelligence and technological solutions aligns closely with CLC’s focus on future-oriented urban research. The LKYCIC is a key collaborator in many areas of this research and looks forward to its partnership with CLC.
Who bears the heat of climate change? Helping communities deal with rising temperatures
Researchers from the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC), led by Assistant Prof Samuel Chng and Dr Zheng Kai, share their findings on how households and living spaces are impacted by climate change.
Media Interview on optimising land use and balancing competing needs while creating a quality living environment in Singapore (CNA, 09.02.2025)
Prof Cheong Koon Hean was featured on the CNA Documentary on ‘Singapore’s Balancing Act – Trade-offs of a Global City State’ which was aired on 9 Feb 2025.
Blowing hot and cold: How does the weather affect your mood and well-being?
Straits Times examine how the weather affects one’s mood and well-being. LKYCIC’s Dr Sarah Chan is quoted in the article.
Bus drivers in Singapore aren't getting any younger. Here is why it's a big problem
Efforts to shed the image of bus driving as a blue-collar job intensify as manpower shortage persists. In this piece, the writer quotes Dr Samuel Chng, who heads the Urban Psychology Lab in the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Podcast interview on “The Century of Cities” by Professor Cheong Koon Hean and Professor Chan Heng Chee (05.12.2024 and 07.01.2025)
Prof Cheong Koon Hean and Prof Chan Heng Chee were featured in a podcast interview titled “The Century of Cities” on 5 Dec 2024 and 7 Jan 2025, produced by Prof Greg Clark and Jennifer Dolynchuk in London.
The podcast interviews are available here: Prof Cheong Koon Hean – Singapore’s Blueprint for Urban Greatness:
New journal paper by Felicity Chan
Incorporating tiny forests in the neighborhood of Singapore – Opportunities and Challenges, Nature-based Solutions, 6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100193
Staff Achievement: Dr Belinda Yuen
LKYCIC is pleased to announce that Dr Belinda Yuen has been appointed to Milan Pact Awards 2022 evaluation committee by city of Milan. She is also science reviewer in WWTF- Vienna Science and Technology Fund (Austria) in field of public health. LKYCIC is pleased to announce that Dr Belinda Yuen has been appointed to Milan Pact Awards 2022 evaluation committee by city of Milan. She is also science reviewer in WWTF- Vienna Science and Technology Fund (Austria) in field of public health.
