Urban Growth
The Urban Growth pillar explores the question of how urban economies create new forms of co-dependency across the public and private sectors, and between cities and regions. It also explores the outcomes of growth, and how the concentration of resources can drive socio-spatial inequalities and injustices, and the challenges of risk creation as urban growth interacts with sustainability challenges.
Cities are incubators of societal development and human progress. In Urban Growth, we frame cities as interconnected networks of value creation, and question what sustainable growth looks like in the current age of environmental disruption.
LI JING
Pillar Lead, Urban Growth
Associate Professor of Economics
Urban Growth Projects
The ‘Other’ Garden City: Documenting Singapore’s Edible Gardening Heritage
Spanning approximately two hundred years of Singapore’s modern history, this study will draw upon a wide array of textual and non-textual historical and contemporary sources to document gardening in Singapore from the 19th century to the present day.
Developing a risk assessment and communication platform to translate climate projections to policy
Through this project supported by the NRF and NEA under the CISR funding initiative, the research team will map climate projections impacting Singapore into a risk assessment framework that will identify potential policy solutions to reduce future climate impacts and risks.
Housing wealth shocks, home equity withdrawal, and the claiming of Social Security retirement benefits
This paper examines the impact of changes in house prices on when eligible individuals start receiving Social Security benefits.