Future Cities Lab - Indicia 03

Future Cities Lab - Indicia 03

This third and final volume in the Indicia book series presents the results of the Future Cities Laboratory research program in the form of actions for sustainable city-making. It complements the first and second volumes of the series that respectively documented the research challenges and approaches that prefigured these results. Read together, the three volumes chart the full arc and many productive eddies of the five-year program and its mission to shape sustainable future cities.

Research results are presented as condensed actions that take the form of general principles, recommendations and practical guidelines. The actions are neither technical standards nor prescriptive checklists but invitations to explore, test and refine research insights within the context in which the reader lives, works and acts. The credibility, salience and legitimacy of each action is underpinned by scientific publications (journal articles, books and exhibitions) presented in extensive footnotes and suggestions for further reading.

About the editors

Stephen Cairns is Director of Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global in Singapore and Professor at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich. He conducts research on Agropolitan Territories in Monsoon Asia, and leads the Urban-Rural Systems design-research group.

Devisari Tunas is the former Research Scenario Leader for Archipelago Cities at Future Cities Laboratory (FCL). Her research interests focus on the topics of smart cities, multidisciplinary collaboration, urban socio-spatial segregation, and urban development in the global South. She holds a PhD degree in Urbanism from TU Delft and a Master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropology from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She had professionally collaborated with the London School of Economics (LSE), Asian Development Banks (ADB), and National University of Singapore (NUS).