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Better Cities Sep 2025
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Last updated 30 September 2025
Better Cities | Sep 2025
Enabling Urban Transformation
Shaping Communities and Partnerships for Tomorrow: Through a Social-Behavioural Lens
CLC leads the Urban Solutions and Sustainability Socio-Behavioral Science Community of Practice (CoP) to strengthen knowledge sharing of social science research, demonstrate urban impact, and build research network capabilities. This year, CLC has conducted two CoPs focusing on partnerships enabling urban development and translating behavioural insights into planning practice.
5 min read
Building Smart Cities: Singapore-Thailand Third Country Training Programme in Singapore
CLC and the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) of Thailand co-organised the Singapore-Thailand Third Country Training Programme workshop: Building Smart Cities in Singapore from 1 to 5 September, for 25 government officers from 14 ASEAN and South Asian countries.
3 min read
Urban Science Week
CLC’s Urban Science Week 2025 was organised in partnership with NUS Cities and Singapore-ETH Centre Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) Global. Held in September, it led discussions on a critical challenge that cities face worldwide: how to effectively translate scientific research into evidence-based urban transformations. Through a series of programmes, it convened government leaders, academics and practitioners from the I&E sector.
9 min read
Creating Liveable Cities: A Cross Domain Approach to Sustainable Mobility
Aligned with CLC’s Liveability Framework, this publication introduces a cross-domain framework that enables cities to identify and maximise co-benefits of mobility interventions, from health and environment to equity and economic vitality. Case studies from Barcelona, London, Vienna and Singapore demonstrates how integrated planning and broadening benefits assessment can guide outcomes-based and cross-domain strategies to strengthen decision-making and public communication.
Urban Solutions #26 | Toward the Co-Evolution and Mutual Prosperity of Culture and Economy - Suzhou
Suzhou was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize in 2014 for its success in balancing economic growth with protection of its 2,500-year-old cultural and built heritage through close collaboration with its vast ecosystem. Suzhou is charting a path where heritage and progress coexist.
Source: Suzhou Spatial Planning Think Tank
7 min read
Urban Solutions #26 | Inter-Sector Coordination for Effectively Addressing Social Issues - Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro received a Special Mention in the 2024 edition of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize. This article explores how the city takes an intersectoral approach in public governance, delivering higher quality solutions to effectively address social issues.
Source: Social Territories Programme
7 min read