Ich verstehe nur Chinesisch
How important is it to speak Chinese? In Singapore almost everybody speaks English so the use of Chinese for a foreigner is limited .Dr. Remo Burkhard is still adamant in learning the language, as he believes that Spin-offs from the Future Cities Laboratory research project will be established in China. Learning Chinese is tough for a [...]
CityEngine and ValueLab on Swiss TV
Zurich wants to be Europe’s Silicon Valley, and therefor Swiss broadcasting SF started a series on Zurichs software companies, one of them Procedural. In the report there is a short passage about the ValueLab, in which they wanted to show, how the CityEngine is used by architects.
Lecture II – NEW METHODS IN URBAN SIMULATION
The course consists of lectures and exercises of state-of-the-art and emerging simulation methods that can assist urban planners, architects and landscape planners in the design process. The simulations are based on the stocks and flows model and include parameters such as density, transportation, materials, capital, sustainability and visualization. Topics include but are not limited to the [...]
FUTURE CITIES ON SWISS TV
The program 10vor10 has been featuring a series of broadcasts on mega cities. Researchers are bringing forward their knowledge and visions of the future of large cities north and south of the equator. ETH Zurich is collaborating with NUS, MIT and Berkeley University in Singapore to make fast growing cities more sustainable. This was shown at [...]