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This FCL Global-led paper uses Kampung Admiralty as a case study to explore the user-space interactions in complex and vertically integrated urban built environments, for effective future planning and design.

Using Spatial Network Analysis, FCL Global researchers investigate the spatial configuration of urban green spaces on pedestrian movement at one-north Park and Jurong Lakeside Garden.

Anjanaa Devi Srikanth of FCL Global uses Spatial Network Analysis and empirical pedestrian movement datasets to study pedestrian movement patterns in one-north Park in Singapore.

FCL researchers publish a method to define representative archetypes of mixed use developments in Singapore, to improve the accuracy of urban data analyses and simulations.

Hot off the press: a new book co-edited by FCL Global PI Asst Prof. Dr Naomi Hanakata examines the urban and social changes caused by mega-events.  

FCL researchers ran a virtual reality simulation to study how environmental features contribute to walkability

To balance high-density and high-quality urban living, different perspectives have emerged in Singapore in creating a resilient city, says Dr Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan.

FCL researchers propose dense mycelium-based composites (DMCs) as a potential green alternative to traditional particleboards in their paper in Nature. 

Integrating CFD simulation into urban design could help us achieve optimal configuration of urban elements to maximise the provision of ecosystem services.

A manual developed by FCL, based on a study in Makassar in Indonesia, serves as a guide in using spatial pandemic-related data to build pandemic resilience in cities.

Healthy soils are important for urban sustainability by supporting flood regulation, nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration. FCL researchers investigate how these capacities can be maximised.

To address the Urban Heat Island effect, FCL researchers use a three-dimensional urban microclimate model using OpenFOAM software to show how urban parks provide a cooling effect of 1°C on air temperatures.

The history of park systems could provide important insights for civic design in an era when urban design is mainly focused on the industrial agenda, wrote Dr Matthew Skjonsberg.

Nature: Using large-scale mobility data from diverse cities around the globe, a simple and robust scaling law that captures the temporal and spatial range of population movement is revealed.

What are the challenges of translating real-world conditions of complex and large-scale buildings into virtual reality simulations? FCL researchers report the challenges and suggest solutions in this book chapter.  

The diversity of commercial building occupants' profiles should be taken into account in district energy demand and supply models for improved accuracy, wrote FCL researchers in a paper.

Researchers from FCL evaluate three indirect field methods for estimating the leaf area density (LAD) and leaf area index (LAI) of widely-dispersed individual trees.

Researchers from the Future Cities Laboratory investigate the relationships between urban forms and ecosystem services in the tropical city of Singapore and temperate city of Zurich.

The Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes team has published their research findings, providing insights to how tropical cities can maximise the benefits from nature.

Eduardo Gomes, Asst Prof (Adj) Markus Schlaepfer and co-​authors describe how stakeholders can directly be engaged in the modelling and simulation process of future land developments.

How can we evaluate the quality of public space quantitatively? Researchers from FCL and FRS introduce the Public Space Quality Index (PSQI), a framework to measure public space quality.

Prof. Bige Tuncer describes how big data and its augmented‐reality projections can be used to facilitate better urban design strategies and understanding in a paper in Architectural Design.

What are the relationships between the age, sex, and income of city dwellers and their interaction with nature? Researchers from FCL investigate demographic biases in nature engagement in Singapore.

How does the cooling effect of urban areas vary with the usage of different vegetation types? Dr Daniel Richards and co-authors investigate more in the paper published in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening.

How can we design signage systems in complex buildings more efficiently? Rohit K. Dubey and co-authors developed the design tool, AUTOSIGN and published their work in Computer & Graphics .

Can data from social media help us understand how different groups of people enjoy outdoor recreation and interact with nature within cities?

How can information theory help us to design signage systems to improve wayfinding performance and user experience? Find out in the paper by Rohit Dubey and co-authors published in Cognitive Computation.

Explore the interaction between buildings and the city as ecological systems in this book by the Dense and Green Building Typologies team at FCL.