Highlights
Facilitating social mixing in public spaces
Public spaces are shared spaces where people from all walks of life encounter one another as they go about their daily activities. As a space of encounter, they hold considerable potential as a platform for community building and strengthening social resilience.
Dr Belinda Yuen appointed to Editorial Board of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Library Series
Published by Routledge, the RTPI Library Series features texts from globally-renowned authors on all aspects of spatial planning theory and practice from a comparative and international perspective.
Biden must listen to Asia, avoid dividing region: Singapore’s former US ambassadors (The Straits Times, 23.11.2020)
On The Straits Times’ inaugural Geopolitical Reset 2021 webinar, LKYCIC chair Prof Chan Heng Chee together with veteran diplomat Tommy Koh, both of whom were former Singapore ambassadors to the US, discussed how the US under Mr Biden is likely to manage its relationships in Asia.
With real-time supply-demand data insight, PAIR mobile app helped 25% of taxis in Chengdu boost income by more than 8%
At the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, the Smart Cities Lab looks at tools that build smart government, businesses, and communities, and scales these smart tools across a network of smart cities for greater impact. Over the past few years, Dr Andy Zheng (Adjunct Fellow) and Poon King Wang (Director) have partnered the use of PAIR Taxi big data insight platform to empower workers in the taxi industry.
IPS-Nathan Lecture III: Singapore in a Time of Flux: Optimism from the Jaws of Gloom
LKYCIC Chair Professor Chan Heng Chee delivered her 3rd IPS-Nathan lecture, titled “Singapore in a Time of Flux: Optimism from the Jaws of Gloom”, on 15 July 2020. The lecture was live-streamed on IPS’ Facebook page, and was moderated by Mr Bilahari Kausikan, Chairman of Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore.
IPS-Nathan Lecture II: The US-China Rivalry: Inevitable War or Avoidable War
LKYCIC Chair Professor Chan Heng Chee delivered her 2nd IPS-Nathan lecture, titled “The US-China Rivalry: Inevitable War or Avoidable War?”, on 1 July 2020. The lecture was live-streamed on IPS’ Facebook page, and was moderated by Professor Joseph Liow, Dean of College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University.
LKYCIC Research Fellow Wins Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Research Prize
Dr Thijs Willems’ PhD dissertation was selected alongside four other winners. They were recognised for their dissertation papers’ outstanding quality, true interdisciplinary methods, originality, international scope and excellent readability.
IPS-Nathan Lecture I: Disruption. Democracy Falters. Capitalism Flounders. World Order Unravels
In her first lecture as IPS’ 7th S R Nathan Fellow, Professor Chan Heng Chee outlined four big challenges the world faces today — disruption, faltering democracy, floundering capitalism and the unraveling of the world order. The lecture was moderated by Prof Danny Quah, Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and was live-streamed on IPS’ Facebook page on 18 June 2020.
COVID-19 and the Future of Work
We are currently in the midst of an accelerated race towards the “Future of Work,” fueled by the growth of digitalization and automation. In this post, we explore what new work arrangements due to the COVID-19 pandemic have shown about the possible futures of work.
Transforming industries and workplaces in an era of climate change
At the end of 2019, many predictions were made about the key trends that would shape business in the next decade. Almost all of the predictions include new technologies and online platforms: 5G, artificial intelligence, e-commerce and digital currencies to name a few. But there is another disruptive force that is frequently mentioned alongside technology: climate change.