Publication Type
News Article
Year
1-2024
Abstract
As Asian cities urbanise at an unprecedented rate, urban policy-makers face the increasingly complex and pressing challenge of balancing urban growth with resilience and sustainability. With migration and the rapid flow of ideas online, old and new city-making practices have become uncomfortably entwined, resulting in contestation for space, resources, and municipal services. In response to megatrends that underscore the critical need to prioritise urban research, Singapore Management University (SMU) today launched the SMU Urban Institute (UI), a new research institute dedicated to multi- and inter-disciplinary research on cities in Asia. SMU UI will look beyond the development of infrastructure, and consider as well the socio-cultural aspects of urbanisation, and the balance between urban growth and sustainability.
Keywords
Singapore Management University, Urban Institute, urbanization, Asia
Disciplines
Asian Studies | Higher Education | Urban Studies and Planning
Publisher
Singapore Management University
Version
publishedVersion
Language
eng
Copyright Holder
Singapore Management University
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Format
application/PDF
Citation
Singapore Management University.
SMU launches Urban Institute focused on the study of Asian cities. (2024). 1-5.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/oh_pressrelease/234