Future Cities laboratory Global_prov

Sacha Menz, Michèle Rüegg Hormes (eds.)

Future Cities Laboratory
Global

Founded in Singapore in 2010, Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) is a leading international research platform for urbanization studies. With more than 150 researchers based in Singapore and Zurich, FCL integrates academic, professional, and cultural perspectives to address the challenges of future cities.

This publication presents FCL’s interdisciplinary research on sustainable urban development and shows how this knowledge is translated into practical outcomes that support policymakers and public institutions in advancing sustainable urban transformation.

Moving beyond conventional notions of the “city” or “metropolis,” the book examines the networked realities of urbanization, acknowledging that settlement systems encompass neighborhoods and buildings, but also hinterlands, ecosystems, resource flows, mobility networks, and cycles of production and consumption. FCL explores urbanization as a spatial and temporal process shaped by everyday rhythms and long-term challenges such as climate change, responding to the need for new research approaches and tools.

Founded in Singapore in 2010, Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) is a leading international research platform for urbanization studies. With more than 150 researchers based in Singapore and Zurich, FCL integrates academic, professional, and cultural perspectives to address the challenges of future cities.

This publication presents FCL’s interdisciplinary research on sustainable urban development and shows how this knowledge is translated into practical outcomes that support policymakers and public institutions in advancing sustainable urban transformation.

Moving beyond conventional notions of the “city” or “metropolis,” the book examines the networked realities of urbanization, acknowledging that settlement systems encompass neighborhoods and buildings, but also hinterlands, ecosystems, resource flows, mobility networks, and cycles of production and consumption. FCL explores urbanization as a spatial and temporal process shaped by everyday rhythms and long-term challenges such as climate change, responding to the need for new research approaches and tools.

Edited by Sacha Menz, Michèle Rüegg Hormes

With contributions by Brian T. Adey, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Prateek Bansal, Philipp Bijecki, Selina Bitting, David Bucher, Paolo Burlando, Chenyi Cai, Steven Cairns, Siew Ann Cheong, Dengkai Chi, Nancy Couling, Tiziano Derme, Rohit K. Dubey, Peter Egger, Arnor Elvarsson, Simone Fatichi, Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan, Lara Gregorians, Adriènne Grêt-Regamey, Youlong Gu, Nicolo Guariento, Naomi Hanakata, Stefanie Hellweg, Pieter Herthogs, Christoph Hoelscher, Michelle Yingying Jiang, David Kaufmann, Paul Knüsel, Kamila Krych, Kosuke Kuriyama, Panagiotis Mavros, Justin McCarty, Naika Meili, Sacha Menz, Subodh Mhaisalkar, Peter Molnar, Susan Parnell, Julio Paulos, Yeshan Qiu, Matias Quintana, Orlando Roman, Michèle Rüegg Hormes, Nicolas Salliou, , Arno Schlueter, Christian Schmid, Gerhard Schmitt, Thomas Schroepfer, Goran Sibenik, Johan Six, Joanna Sleigh, Judit Solt, Rudi Stouffs, Evi Syariffudin, Puay Yok Tan, Jia Heng Teoh, Milica Topalović, Zdravko Trivic, Philipp Urech, Christoph Waibel, Jing Wang, Christian Wolfrum, Qiming Ye, Yue Zhu, et al.

Design: Studio Joost Grootens

17 × 24 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 ½ in

ca 240 pages, ca 180 illustrations

paperback

2026, 978-3-03778-806-6, English
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Sacha Menz

Sacha Menz is Professor for Architecture and Building Process at ETH Zurich and a practicing architect. He is the founder of sam architects in Zurich. At ETH, he served as dean of the Department of Architecture and co-founded and led the Institute of Technology in Architecture for over ten years, where he designed and coordinated the Arch_Tec_Lab building, the institute’s new home. Since 2012 Sacha Menz is actively involved in the Future Cities Laboratory research programme and since 2020 he has been shaping and leading the Future Cities Laboratory Global as Executive Director.

Michèle Rüegg Hormes

Michèle Rüegg Hormes is an architect. She holds a master’s degree from ETH Zurich and a postgraduate degree in architectural theory and history from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She was Head of Communications at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Since 2018, she has been involved in local politics, promoting sustainable urban development. In 2022, she joined Future Cities Laboratory Global as Associate Director for Communications, and is responsible for transferring knowledge from research to the professional community and the public.