Human geography Urban geography

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13 May 2026
SUTD researchers used mobile phone GPS traces, street view imagery, and open-source spatial data to show that pedestrian route choices in a rapidly developing city are shaped far more by street conditions and context than by distance alone.
The weighted KDE of analysis of the data from the POIs in Pekanbaru (blue), indicating urban functional delineation, overlaid over a Sentinel-2 map of the city. The five deeper blue areas are the hotspots of urban activity, which correspond to urbanized areas. The borders of the delineation do not correspond to the borders of the urbanized area on the map, which indicates a difference between how urban functional delineation and traditional urban delineation define urbanization.
04 Sep 2025
Tracking human behavioral patterns in cities can be used to determine urban delineations and urban land use, which has the potential to improve urban planning.
07 Mar 2025
A new framework formulated by SUTD researchers helps ensure digital citizen participation does not just end with feedback collection, but translates into real-world urban decisions.
Factors in rent prices
07 Feb 2025
A hedonic price model incorporating street view images processed by machine learning and existing property data achieves nearly 75% accuracy for rent prediction in Osaka City
Los Angeles
06 Nov 2024
Research suggests that urban areas could reduce their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by optimizing their urban form. However, the relationship between urban form and emissions is highly context-dependent and generalizations cannot be made.
The Japanese shrinking cities
30 Sep 2024
A study on factors that contribute to population changes based on city size
09 Sep 2024
SUTD researchers delved into the lived experiences of Singaporeans including older adults to uncover key factors influencing their walking habits, which can guide urban planners in designing people-centric environments that promote active mobility.
What to do with the old family house?
11 Jun 2024
Conversion to health care facilities shows correlation to population change
Due to a high concentration of people and activities in cities, they are at the forefront of battle against climate change.
30 Nov 2023
Aids local governments in adapting to the threats of climate change
Green urban corridors
20 Jun 2023
Adaption and mitigation efforts might be improved with inclusivity and transparency
Researchers find that climate change adaptation brings health co-benefits
03 Sep 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased attention on links between public health and the planet’s health — areas traditionally addressed in separate science and policy circles. Now, an international research collaboration conducted the first comprehensive review of urban climate change responses and potential human health improvements.
Population heatmap of Tehran
16 Apr 2021
A person who owns a car or who has a college education may be less vulnerable to COVID-19, according to an analysis of cases in Tehran, Iran, one of the early epicenters of the pandemic. While such variables do not inherently lower a person’s risk, they do indicate an infrastructure of protection that persists despite how densely populated a person’s district might be.

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Professor at Department of Landscape Architecture, KAED, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Research interests include urban design/urban landscape, cultural landscape, residential landscape, GIS and human-computer interaction, and environmental planning.
I am a senior lecturer in the School of the Built Environment. Prior to this I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research, University of Cambridge (2001-2004) and a researcher at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement (1986-1994). I hold a BSc in Management Studies and MBA from the Univeristy of Ewha, Seoul, Korea and gained my PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science in 2000.

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