News & Events
Talk about "Smart Cities and Urban Resilience", 21 May 2025
Visiting Professor Dr. Yue Ge will give a talk on "Smart Cities and Urban Resilience – A Central Florida Perspective." The presentation, followed by a discussion, is hosted by the Future Cities Lab and the SPUR research group. It will take place on 21 May at the FCL Conference Space (HIL H45.2) from 11:15 am to 12:30 pm.
New article in Nature Cities – Emotions overrule cognitive evaluations in urban neighborhood preferences
Peri-urban growth is reshaping rural areas and creating challenges. Using immersive experiments, this study finds that emotional reactions dominate over cognitive judgments, with people favoring urban and rural settings over peri-urban ones in neighborhood preferences
New Publication on Regulatory Preferences and Housing Densification
Michael Wicki, Fiona Kauer, Katrin Hofer, and David Kaufmann have published a new article in the Journal of Urban Affairs titled Nuancing NIMBYism: How regulatory preferences shape public acceptance of housing densification.
Niraly Mangal joins SPUR as a visiting PhD
Niraly Mangal joins the SPUR Team from the Singapore-ETH Centre as a visiting doctoral researcher. Her research primarily focuses on the intersection of public acceptance and planning frameworks for insect-based food waste recycling in high density urban environments of Singapore.
New article in Renewable Energy: GIS-based analysis for identifying priority regions and developing renewable energy in post-war Ukraine
Research assess the technical potential of solar and wind energy combined with environmental, social, and technical factors for determines priority regions for the development of renewable energy. For the first time in Ukraine, the research defines a detailed renewable energy potential using spatial analysis, with 25 indicators to assess regions and pixel suitability and considered local features such as restrictions on the use of agricultural land.