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Better Cities Mar 2025
Better Cities, a monthly e-newsletter, updates friends and partners about the Centre’s work. The newsletter reaches an international audience of readers from government, media, academia, private sector and non-governmental organisations.
Last updated 28 March 2025
Better Cities | Mar 2025
A Sustainable Future for All
A New Partner for Knowledge Exchange and Collaboration
CLC and SUTD inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 13 March to enhance knowledge exchange and collaboration on urban solutions.
Signed by Hugh Lim, Executive Director, CLC, and Prof Tai Lee Siang, DeputyPresident, Chief Innovation and Enterprise Officer, Centre Director (DesignZ), Programme Director (Design and AI), SUTD, the MoU will foster collaborations to address challenges from urbanisation within cities such as those that advance climate action, health and wellbeing in an urban environment, and urban liveability.
We look forward to working with SUTD on future programmes and projects.
Sustainable Sydney – Urban Transformation for a Green Future
The city of Sydney is taking bold strides for a greener future, implementing urban projects to enhance sustainability and the quality of life of its people. Read about three of such transformative projects in the city for urban sustainability through the lens of Andy Tan, who is a part of the Research Team at CLC.
Image source: Xu Fang Lan / Flickr
4 min read
Liveability Framework: Part 7 – Enablers
CLC launched the refreshed Liveability Framework (LF) at the World Cities Summit in June 2024. This is the seventh of a 10-part series on the LF that showcases its various components through bite-sized articles.
In relation to the LF, Science of Cities approaches and evidence-based methods can be viewed as enablers that operate within the space linking systems and outcomes, and serve to augment the effectiveness of systems in addressing complex urban issues and delivering liveability outcomes.
10min read
Download the full e-publication here.
Lecture Report: What Makes Cities Liveable and Loveable
This lecture held in February focused on what makes cities liveable and loveable, and how these indicators can be measured. A distinguished panel comprising Mr Chris Fair, Ms Theresa Sheils, Mr Sebastian Ang, Mr Anupam Yog, and Dr Limin Hee, with Ms Ong Ker-Shing serving as moderator, shared their diverse perspectives on what makes a city tick and thrive, to go beyond the brick-and-mortar façades of our cityscapes to uncover the ‘urban software’ and sense of place that truly defines great cities.
World Cities Summit 2024 on YouTube
New videos of select sessions are now available on the World Cities Summit YouTube channel.
Catch highlights of the last World Cities Summit 2024 that took place in June last year on our channel.
Urban Solutions #25 | Integration and Collaboration in Stormwater Resilience
Rohit T. “Rit” Aggarwala, Chief Climate Officer of New York City and the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, talks about what the city is doing to build up stormwater and coastal resilience.
8 min read
Urban Solutions #25 | Climate Budgeting for Rapid Action in Cities
Hear from Mark Watts, Executive Director of C40 Cities, on what it takes to achieve economy-wide transformational change and climate budgeting for rapid action in cities.
5 min read