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Left (top-bottom): SMU Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society Winston Chow; SMU Associate Professor Humanities Orlando Woods.
Right: SMU President and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Social Sciences Lily.
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SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer - For most of human history, populations across the world lived in low-density, rural settings. Over the past few centuries, however, this changed dramatically with the trend of urbanisation. Today, more than four billion people live in urban settings worldwide; by 2050, about two thirds of the world s population are expected to live in cities.
Despite their rapid growth, cities do not spring up fully formed, but are shaped by evolving human constructs including government policy, legal frameworks and emerging technologies. It is precisely because much of human life is now led in cities that it is essential to examine these construc ....

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