Urban Life
The Urban Life pillar explores the question of what makes cities liveable or unliveable places. It also explores how specific cultures of urban place-making might contribute to urban diversity and the vibrancy of the city, whilst simultaneously causing patterns of socio-spatial segregation to perpetuate.
Urban Life is about how people sense, experience, and live in their cities, begging the question of why and how residents of the same city might live vastly different urban lives.
ORLANDO WOODS
Pillar Lead, Urban Life
Director, SMU Urban Institute
Associate Professor of Geography
Urban Life 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 LifeEducation Infrastructures and Migrant Un/Belonging: Indian Students in Singapore
This project seeks to understand the role of “education infrastructures” in shaping the terms and extent of belonging amongst Indian migrants in Singapore.
Longitudinal Study to Quantify and Qualify the Impact of the EPR Framework for E-Waste in Singapore
The proposed longitudinal study aims to quantify and qualify the impact of the EPR framework for e-waste in Singapore.
New Religious Pluralisms in Singapore: Migration, Integration and Difference
This project seeks to understand the extent to which religion can enable or disenable the integration of migrant and nonmigrant communities from different religious traditions in Singapore.
