NUS Cities Newsletter Issue 2 | March 2024
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Welcome to Issue 2!
We lay out what this issue has to offer.
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Sanjana Mugeraya (NUS Cities Instructor) sums up the key points from the ninth instalment of the NUS Cities Public Lecture Series on 23 January 2024. Jonathan F. P. Rose (founder of Jonathan Rose Companies and co-founder of the Garrison Institute) spoke about his personal experiences and insights.
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Dr Dai Fangzhou (Research Fellow, NUS Cities; PhD in Transporation Policy, NUS) uses the opening of the Circle Line in Singapore as a quasi-experiment to assess how individuals change their travel behaviour in response to improved access to rail transit.
Image Credit: "Singapore Scene" by alantankenghoe, used under CC BY 2.0 DEED
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Professor Yuan Chao (Director of Research, NUS Cities; Founder and Principal Investigator, Urban Climate Design Lab, NUS) discusses the potential of computer modelling in understanding the urban heat island phenomenon, and in mitigating its negative repercussions, through a scientific approach to design and planning.
Image Source: Yuan C., Norford L.K., Britter R., Ng E., 2016. A Modelling-Mapping Approach for Fine-Scale Assessment of Pedestrian-level Wind in High-Density Cities, Building and Environment.
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Professor Herbert Dreiseitl (Founder and CEO, DREISEITLConsulting) explains why he is passionate about making blue-and-green an integral part of the future of cities.
Image Credit: "Looking north up Kallang River at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park" by Wzhkevin, used under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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Dr Jonathan Reichental (Founder, Human Future; Former Chief Information Officer at O’Reilly Media and Palo Alto, California) lays out his vision of the ‘smart city and the intersection between technology and the climate crisis.
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Practice Professor Fong Chun Wah (Deputy Director, NUS Cities; Former Deputy CEO (Building), HDB) ponders the related questions: Why has this come about, and how has the retail scene adapted to the external environment? What can we expect in future?
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