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“Building emissions are not just about size or density, they’re deeply shaped by the unique context of each city, from its planning legacy to climate and economic conditions.”
Researchers at CDE, led by Asst Prof Filip Biljecki (NUS Department of Architecture), have developed an open workflow that maps carbon emissions at the building level using only publicly available data. The team’s findings were published recently in the journal Nature Sustainability.
Tested in cities like Singapore, New York and Melbourne, the model reveals how planning history, income levels and urban form shape emissions patterns. It also shows that a small number of buildings often account for a large share of a city's emissions.
The tool could help city planners design more targeted and equitable climate policies.
“This work demonstrates the potential of open science and AI to accelerate urban sustainability,” said Asst Prof Biljecki.
Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gcKnWUWBWinston Yap#CDE#NUS#ForgingNewFrontiers#CDEImpact
Walkable Cities, Drivable Futures: No More Trade-Offs
For decades, urban planning has wrestled with a false choice: roads or walkability. But new research from Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) proves both can thrive—thanks to generative urban modelling. By simulating thousands of layouts, planners can now optimize for pedestrian comfort and vehicular access without compromise.
At WHT, we see this as a poetic shift: from rigid grids to intelligent ecosystems where infrastructure adapts to life, not the other way around.
• Generative models simulate 3,000+ urban layouts for optimal balance
• Pedestrian and vehicular networks designed separately, then harmonized
• Tested in Singapore: walkability improved without sacrificing road access
• Supports inclusive, resilient, and climate-conscious city design
• WHT’s hybrid vision aligns: energy, real estate, and AI-driven infrastructure
#UrbanDesign#WalkableCities#GenerativeModelling#SmartInfrastructure#WHTGlobal#AIinPlanning#SustainableCities#MobilityInnovation#SectorLeadership
Call for Papers - Special Issue in Urban Science
The confirmation of 2023 as the hottest year on record highlights how urgently our cities must adapt to climate change. As urban areas grow and face increasingly frequent extreme weather events, resilience in the built environment is more vital than ever.
This Special Issue, “Industrialized Construction Systems for Resilient Urban Environments,” explores how modular, prefabricated, and digitally enabled construction systems can help cities withstand environmental, economic, and social shocks, while advancing equity and sustainability.
Guest Editors are Dr. Maria João Falcão Silva and Dr. Filipa Salvado
We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that bridge architecture, engineering, urban planning, and the social sciences, addressing topics such as:
🏗️ Modular and prefabricated construction
💻 Digital design and automation (BIM, AI, digital twins)
🌱 Circular and climate-responsive building systems
🏘️ Adaptive reuse and retrofitting for resilience
⚖️ Policy, equity, and inclusive frameworks in industrialized construction
Whether theoretical, methodological, or practice-based, your research can help redefine how cities build for resilience and inclusivity.
Submit your manuscript to Urban Science and join us in shaping the future of resilient, sustainable urban development.
🔗 https://lnkd.in/dJ4U32vX#UrbanScience#CallForPapers#ResilientCities#IndustrializedConstruction#UrbanPlanning#Architecture#Sustainability#ClimateChange#Prefabrication#CircularEconomy
𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗜𝘁 - 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
How can we create cities that are smarter, greener, and more people-focused?
As urbanization accelerates, technology connects people, streamlines systems, and drives innovation. However, real progress means building environments where sustainability and human well-being are equally prioritized.
𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:
* 𝗔𝗜-𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 monitor air quality and optimize energy use.
* 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 networks reduce carbon emissions.
* 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 integrates nature into every design.
* 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲-𝘁𝗼-𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 innovations turn pollution into power.
Science and technology are enabling an urban future where data supports sustainability and innovation fosters inclusion.
At 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, we believe knowledge drives change. Our mission is to promote awareness, innovation, and action, empowering individuals and organizations to use technology responsibly for a sustainable world.
As we mark this day, let’s remember that sustainability is not just an agenda; it’s a shared responsibility. Whether you’re a researcher, student, innovator, or citizen, your ideas and actions matter.
Together, we can transform our cities into places of harmony, progress, and purpose.
𝗣.𝗦. Every small step toward sustainability counts. Together, we can turn our cities into living examples of balance and innovation. The future of our planet depends on how we build our homes today. Let’s make sustainability the foundation of progress.
#WorldHabitatDay2025#ScienceAndTechnologyOnline#SustainableDevelopment#SmartCities#UrbanInnovation#GreenTechnology#ClimateAction#TechForGood#DigitalTransformation#EcoFriendly#FutureOfCities#CleanEnergy#UrbanResilience#SustainabilityMatters
One thing leads to another.
If you can't reach the light rail station easily and quickly by public transport.
If you can't safely park your bike at the station. Better if it's protected from rain.
If you can't park for free (with proof of train tickets) your car at the station.
Then, you are losing many passengers.
It would be a lot easier to convert more people to become passengers, if the teams at the light rail organization, stop thinking their mandate starts at the rails.
They need to plan and integrate in their plan how people goes from A to B, not just the area they cover. Because this is how humans thinks and one certainty is that will never change.
How fast is my trip from A to B?
How simple it is?
How much do I need to wait (frequency)?
How realiable it is?
How much it costs?
This is why it's key to consider the whole picture when we opt to change an habit.
To make your offer irresistable, you need to address the pain points of passengers, even the ones that appear to be outside your mandate.
Like I said: One thing leads to another.
#changinghabits#mobility#urbantransformation#stopthesilos#REM
Designing Cities That Shape Who We Become | Cognitive Urbanist | Founder, Transformative Cities | Co-Founder, URBAN FUTURE Global Conference
Change is not an action. It’s an emergent property of conditions.
What this means for cities 👇
1. Stop planning actions. Start designing conditions.
→ Ask: What makes the current behaviour feel inevitable?
→ Change the field, not the actor.
2. Map what the system stabilises — before you try to move it.
→ Which routines, identities, and stories does this place keep alive?
→ What contradictions or frictions are already trying to evolve?
3. Design for coherence, not compliance.
→ People shift when the new behaviour feels more viable, safe, and meaningful than the old one.
→ Don’t persuade — reconfigure what feels natural.
4. Work on the environment’s invitations.
→ What feels easy, safe, and permitted here?
→ Every bench, sign, or shortcut teaches a rule. Which rules need rewriting?
5. Measure ripples, not outputs.
→ What’s repeating without enforcement?
→ Who’s taking ownership that wasn’t before?
6. Treat resistance as data.
→ Stability isn’t failure — it shows what the system protects.
→ Ask: What fear or attachment keeps the old pattern coherent?
7. Design the rehearsal.
→ Norms emerge when new patterns are publicly visible, shared, and repeated.
→ Make change performable, not theoretical.
8. Scale the attractor, not the intervention.
→ Don’t copy the pilot — replicate the conditions that made it take root.
→ What feedback loops reinforced it locally? Start there.
9. Think like a gardener.
→ You can’t engineer emergence.
→ You prepare the soil, plant small, watch what self-organises, and amplify what works.
👉 In short:
Cities don’t change because we act harder.
They change when we alter what feels obvious, safe, and worth repeating.
——————
Every urban project changes people. Few know how to do it on purpose.
I post the methods, language, and leverage points from Transformative Cities the first framework for cognitive and enactive urbanism.
Follow for tools and insights.
#urbanpolicy#TransformativeCities#CognitiveUrbanism#EnactiveUrbanism#UrbanTransformation#BehaviourChange#UrbanDesign#SystemsThinking#UrbanPlanning#SocietalChange#CityMaking#ComplexSystems#BehaviouralScience#DesignForChange
“Change is not an action. It’s an emergent property of conditions.
What this means for cities 👇
1. Stop planning actions. Start designing conditions.
→ Ask: What makes the current behaviour feel inevitable?
→ Change the field, not the actor.
2. Map what the system stabilises — before you try to move it.
→ Which routines, identities, and stories does this place keep alive?
→ What contradictions or frictions are already trying to evolve?
3. Design for coherence, not compliance.
→ People shift when the new behaviour feels more viable, safe, and meaningful than the old one.
→ Don’t persuade — reconfigure what feels natural.
4. Work on the environment’s invitations.
→ What feels easy, safe, and permitted here?
→ Every bench, sign, or shortcut teaches a rule. Which rules need rewriting?
5. Measure ripples, not outputs.
→ What’s repeating without enforcement?
→ Who’s taking ownership that wasn’t before?
6. Treat resistance as data.
→ Stability isn’t failure — it shows what the system protects.
→ Ask: What fear or attachment keeps the old pattern coherent?
7. Design the rehearsal.
→ Norms emerge when new patterns are publicly visible, shared, and repeated.
→ Make change performable, not theoretical.
8. Scale the attractor, not the intervention.
→ Don’t copy the pilot — replicate the conditions that made it take root.
→ What feedback loops reinforced it locally? Start there.
9. Think like a gardener.
→ You can’t engineer emergence.
→ You prepare the soil, plant small, watch what self-organises, and amplify what works.”
Designing Cities That Shape Who We Become | Cognitive Urbanist | Founder, Transformative Cities | Co-Founder, URBAN FUTURE Global Conference
Change is not an action. It’s an emergent property of conditions.
What this means for cities 👇
1. Stop planning actions. Start designing conditions.
→ Ask: What makes the current behaviour feel inevitable?
→ Change the field, not the actor.
2. Map what the system stabilises — before you try to move it.
→ Which routines, identities, and stories does this place keep alive?
→ What contradictions or frictions are already trying to evolve?
3. Design for coherence, not compliance.
→ People shift when the new behaviour feels more viable, safe, and meaningful than the old one.
→ Don’t persuade — reconfigure what feels natural.
4. Work on the environment’s invitations.
→ What feels easy, safe, and permitted here?
→ Every bench, sign, or shortcut teaches a rule. Which rules need rewriting?
5. Measure ripples, not outputs.
→ What’s repeating without enforcement?
→ Who’s taking ownership that wasn’t before?
6. Treat resistance as data.
→ Stability isn’t failure — it shows what the system protects.
→ Ask: What fear or attachment keeps the old pattern coherent?
7. Design the rehearsal.
→ Norms emerge when new patterns are publicly visible, shared, and repeated.
→ Make change performable, not theoretical.
8. Scale the attractor, not the intervention.
→ Don’t copy the pilot — replicate the conditions that made it take root.
→ What feedback loops reinforced it locally? Start there.
9. Think like a gardener.
→ You can’t engineer emergence.
→ You prepare the soil, plant small, watch what self-organises, and amplify what works.
👉 In short:
Cities don’t change because we act harder.
They change when we alter what feels obvious, safe, and worth repeating.
——————
Every urban project changes people. Few know how to do it on purpose.
I post the methods, language, and leverage points from Transformative Cities the first framework for cognitive and enactive urbanism.
Follow for tools and insights.
#urbanpolicy#TransformativeCities#CognitiveUrbanism#EnactiveUrbanism#UrbanTransformation#BehaviourChange#UrbanDesign#SystemsThinking#UrbanPlanning#SocietalChange#CityMaking#ComplexSystems#BehaviouralScience#DesignForChange
Journal of the Week: City and Built Environment. 🏙️
The urbanization challenge demands innovative, interdisciplinary solutions.
As cities worldwide grow at unprecedented rates, with Asian cities becoming increasingly compact and high-density, understanding sustainable development has become essential.
From low-carbon building design to smart city data management, from healthy urban environments to comprehensive energy planning, this research platform unites multiple disciplines with one mission: creating sustainable, healthy, and intelligent cities.
Explore cutting-edge studies on urban climate, water systems, municipal administration, and the intricate people-building-city relationship.
Abstracted in 14 leading databases including Dimensions, EBSCO, and ProQuest.
Discover groundbreaking research shaping tomorrow's urban landscapes. https://lnkd.in/gezxN2YVZhejiang University#AcadeMax#ZJU#construction#Buildings#City#Town#Environment#Database#relationship#Science#Research#Urbanization#Climatechange#Administration#Watersupply
Just explored an inspiring vision for the future of our cities: "It's Alive: A vision for tall buildings in 2050" by Arup Foresight.
This thought-provoking report imagines skyscrapers not as static structures, but as dynamic, living systems that are:
✅Human-Centred & Inclusive – fostering community, health, and wellbeing.
✅Circular & Regenerative – designed for disassembly and giving back to the environment.
✅Intelligent & Adaptive – using digital twins and AI to optimize resources and space.
✅Resilient & Innovative – producing food, generating clean energy, and responding to climate challenges.
It's a powerful reminder that the built environment has a crucial role to play in creating a sustainable, equitable, and thriving future. The future of architecture isn't just about taller buildings; it's about smarter, kinder, and more alive ecosystems. A must-read for anyone in #architecture, #engineering, #urbanplanning, #sustainability, and #realestate.
What quality from the report resonates most with you? For me, it's the vision of buildings as 'carbon positive' and biodiversity hubs.
#FutureOfCities#SustainableDesign#Innovation#PropTech#Construction#Arup#UrbanDevelopment#ESG
Cities are turning to tall wooden buildings as a greener way to build homes
✅ Relevant to: urban planners, architects, construction firms
🌍 Observed in: United States
🌐 Source(s): The Boston Globe
👤 Led by: city of Cambridge and local housing developers
🏷 Related to: sustainable construction, affordable housing, urban design
🗂️ Categories: Environment & Resources – Sustainability & Climate | Business & Economy – Real Estate & Smart Cities
🔎 Detected by: Hidden Data Lab’s AI-driven trend detection platform – built on real data, 3,000 patterns, and a global focus.
A new housing project proposed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is showing how cities can build higher and more sustainably at the same time. As reported by The Boston Globe, the 12-story affordable housing development would be made almost entirely from laminated timber, a material known as mass timber.
Unlike steel and concrete, mass timber stores carbon instead of producing it, making it a cleaner choice for construction. Advances in design and fire safety now allow taller wooden buildings to meet modern standards, helping cities reduce emissions while adding much-needed housing.
Cambridge’s updated zoning rules, which allow greater building height near transit areas, are giving this idea more room to grow. If successful, this approach could serve as a model for other urban areas looking to combine climate-friendly building methods with affordable housing goals.
In short, this trend shows how climate policy, design innovation, and urban planning are coming together to shape the next generation of sustainable housing.
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