{"id":19736,"date":"2026-02-04T13:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/?post_type=nus-news&#038;p=19736"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:12:41","slug":"decoding-the-hidden-grammar-of-cities","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/news\/decoding-the-hidden-grammar-of-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the hidden grammar of cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\n<div id=\"items\" class=\"style-scope ytd-structured-description-content-renderer\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BVZa7ANFXR0?si=ws6M-sKt8EWxGLsK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"ytwHowThisWasMadeSectionViewModelSectionTitle\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">How can AI, data and advanced urban modelling help design cities that are more liveable, sustainable and healthy as climate change intensifies? In this video, Asst Prof Yu Qian Ang (Department of the Built Environment, College of Design and Engineering at NUS) explains how his research uses artificial intelligence, digital twins and city-scale modelling to understand how cities function and how they can be designed for better energy performance, comfort and health. A Presidential Young Professor, Yu Qian Ang leads the City Syntax Lab (<\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTFRMHpxVWxKcjY1NjZiR25kZnFWWEg0RmJDd3xBQ3Jtc0trRkxVZGNsUUp4MmNPcHJ0ak1VS0xJdHFLa05rZ09qNEhBNktGWVFPc3pYZVI4czR1bk1Bc0t6ZEI2bHlzR1cwMjlqM3ZydmQ1elJLWXlxY1U2T1dvRTFyYzJGTDlMMkUwamJYY1NkUWhNa0lSTEFZcw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.citysyntax.io%2F&amp;v=BVZa7ANFXR0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.citysyntax.io<\/a><\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">), where his team studies the energy\u2013comfort\u2013health nexus across buildings, neighbourhoods and entire cities. Using AI-powered perception models, physics-based simulations and urban building energy modelling, the lab supports better urban design and planning decisions that reduce energy use, cut carbon emissions and improve liveability.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing better cities begins with understanding how they really work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":19737,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[84,118,83],"class_list":["post-19736","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-5gdbt","news_category-cibest_news","news_category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19744,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/19736\/revisions\/19744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/dbe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=19736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}