Highlights

Coexisting or coworking? The reconfigured office spaces in two emerging global cities. Journal of Urban Affairs. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2242531

LKYCIC was delighted to host Professor Eyal Yaniv, Chair, Bar-Ilan Centre for Smart Cities on 5 Sep 2023.

LKYCIC is pleased to announce that Dr Cai Yanjun’s paper titled Resilient Placemaking through Urban Stream Restoration in Guangzhou, China, written with Prof. Chen Zhihe from Sun Yat-sen University won the Best Paper Award in the Lien International Conference on Good Governance, organised by Nanyang Technological University.

Episode 4 of the Netflix four-part series hosted by Dan Buettner featured an interview segment with Professor Chan Heng Chee on Singapore. This was launched in the Netflix limited series on 30 Aug 2023.

The Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) recently to explore research and academic collaborations in cities.   As part of the collaboration, a delegation comprising Prof Cheong Koon Hean, Dr Harvey Neo and Dr Samuel Chng (LKYCIC) and Assoc Prof Yeo Kang Shua (Architecture and Sustainable Design; ASD) visited Shanghai from 20 to 24 Aug 2023 for an academic exchange with the Shanghai Academy of Social Science.

Our graduate students in the Master of Science in Urban Science, Policy and Planning (MUSPP) had been hard at work applying the skills and knowledge to a host of pertinent urban challenges we face today and presented their research at the Summer Soirée held on 15 Aug 2023 to the faculty, practitioners and policymakers.

LKYCIC was delighted to host the Ambassador-designate to Turkey, Her Excellency Kok Li Peng on 17 Aug 2023.

The conference was held on 14 Aug 2023  at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre. It was organised by the Singapore University of Technology and Design’s Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and Institute of Policy Studies.

Visual continuous time preferences. Frontiers in Behavioral Economics, 2, 1206679. https://doi.org/10.3389/frbhe.2023.1206679 The adventure of running experiments with teenagers. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 102048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2023.102048

Episode 5 of PBS (Public Broadcasting) six-part series – ‘Human Footprint’, featured a segment on Singapore and was aired in the USA on 2 Aug 2023. Prof Cheong Koon Hean was interviewed on how Singapore embraced biophilic design, and its success in balancing housing and development with greening and biodiversity.