APPLICATION CLOSED!


Sustainable Future Cities Research Cluster Leader (Assoc. Prof to Prof Level)
A Joint Appointment in the Department of Architecture and Asia Research Institute (ARI)

BACKGROUND

Asia has been experiencing rapid and often uncontrolled changes in many areas over the past four decades.  Economic growth, while generally desired, has also resulted in much environmental degradation and socio-cultural discontinuities. Asian cities, the site of these tumultuous changes in the age of capitalist globalization, are caught between urbanization and the demands of sustainability.  The "Sustainable Future Cities" research initiative at ARI is targeted at examining emergent urban situations in which social-cultural and environmental sustainability require urgent attention.

ROLE

Your role would be to champion and lead activities in research and teaching on the socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of sustainability in Asian cities, such as eco-urbanism, cultural preservation, and quality of social life. The following is an inclusive list of research expertise that would be pertinent:

sustainable architecture, urban management & governance, urban planning, urban design, urban place-making, land-use management, transport and communication modes, the interface between technology and society (for example, in relation to emerging environmental technologies, and water and energy resource use), industrial and landscape ecology, economics and finances of sustainability of quality human health and social life, regeneration of heritage areas in extant cities.

INVITATION TO APPLY

Interested applicants are invited to email their applications, consisting of:

• Cover letter
• Curriculum Vitae;
• Synopsis of the proposed research project (no restriction on the number of pages);
  At least one sample of their published work;
• Ensure that 3 referees submit directly to us (email is also acceptable) a confidential report on the applicant's academic standing as well as comment on their research project by 1 May 2008.

The closing date for applications and references is on 1 May 2008.

Address for applications and references:

Ms Clara Wong Kit Man
Department of Architecture
School of Design and Environment
National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive
Singapore 117566
Email:akicwkm@nus.edu.sg

Please email your queries on the position to A/P Dr Wong Yunn Chii at akiwyc@nus.edu.sg