Urban Infrastructure
The Urban Infrastructure pillar explores the question of how hard and soft infrastructures might affect urban development and resilience. It also explores how these infrastructures evolve in response to hazards, and the connectivity between places that enable the flows of people, goods, services, information and energy.
Much more than just the physical and built environment, Urban Infrastructure encompasses the material, socio-cultural, economic, and legal-regulatory systems that govern, optimise, and advance our cities.
WINSTON CHOW
Pillar Lead,
Urban Infrastructure
Professor of Urban Climate
Urban Infrastructure Projects
Rising Scholars Fellowship Programme
The SMU Urban Institute is pleased to announce two exciting opportunities in May 2025, in collaboration with the
Urban Fellows' Publication: Assessing impact of urban densification on outdoor microclimate and thermal comfort using ENVI-met simulations for Combined Spatial-Climatic Design (CSCD) approach
The article by Winston Chow, Pillar Lead (Urban Infrastructure) and Professor of Urban Climate, and other collaborators was recently published in 'Sustainable Cities and Society'Urban Fellows' Publication: Island platforms and the hyper-terrestrialisation of Singapore’s smart city-state
The article by Orlando Woods (Director of SMU Urban Institute; Pillar Lead (Urban Life); Associate Professor of Geography), Tim Bunnell (Department of Geography, NUS), and Lily Kong (President, SMU; Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences), was recently published in 'Territory, Politics, Governance'SMU launches Urban Institute focused on the study of Asian cities
New institute will craft a multi- and interdisciplinary research agenda organised around the key themes of Urban Infrastructure, Urban Growth and Urban LifeTechnocratic Regionalism in Southeast Asia: The Translational Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer
This project will explore the translational politics of smart city knowledge transfer, and how these politics implicate urban environments throughout Southeast Asia.
Cool Paints Trials in Schools to Mitigate UHI Effects
The project aims to collect data to assess the efficacy of cool paints in mitigating the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects in selected Singapore schools through the deployment of micro-scale sensors and remote sensing platforms.
An Exponential Cone Programming Approach for Managing Electric Vehicle Charging
Motivated by the operational challenges of public charging stations, such as EVgo, Tesla, and Chargepoint, this project formulates the problem of scheduling vehicle charging to minimize the expected total cost as a stochastic program and solve it using exponential cone program (ECP) approximations.
