Future of Urban Liveability

The Future of Urban Liveability (FUL) Primer Study aims to investigate how Singapore’s urban planning model could evolve to include a more distributed network of jobs, amenities, walking, active mobility, and green infrastructure to future-proof our towns and neighbourhoods so they can respond well to changing demographic needs, especially an ageing population, and deliver better health and liveability outcomes. This would in turn help to inform Singapore’s next bound of polycentricity, explore possibilities to expand the role of our local towns and neighbourhoods in job and amenity provisions, and push boundaries on enhancing liveability as an everyday lived experience.

To do so, the project will go beyond functional supply-side planning indicators for “right-sizing/siting” facilities and uses and explore more outcomes-based planning approaches that focus on spatial attributes and urban parameters like use-mix, density, accessibility, job provision ratios, and health and sustainability factors, so as to exploit potentially untapped synergies when planning for more liveable towns of the future.

The project is a collaboration between the Cities and Urban Science Programme and the Urban Psychology Lab in LKYCIC, the Meta Design Lab at SUTD and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS.