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2026

Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI)-adjusted pedestrian accessibility: Urban design exploration for climate-resilience in tropical climates

Elif Esra AYDIN, Zebin Chen*, F. Peter Ortner, Jing Zhi Tay,Kelvin Li,Ryan Chua
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Journal of Urban Design

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2025

Generative Urban Modeling for Walkable Neighborhoods: Design Optimization for Pedestrian-oriented Street Networks

F. Peter Ortner, Zebin Chen, Elif Esra AYDIN, Peng Song

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Urban Data Analytics for Urban Heat Island Mitigation: A Case Study of Urban Design Exploration for Singapore’s Tropical Climate

Elif Esra AYDIN, F. Peter Ortner, Praveen Govindarajan, Jing Zhi Tay, Zebin Chen

Case Studies in the Environment

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2024

Climate-Responsive Urban Planning Through Generative Models: Sensitivity Analysis of Urban Planning and Design Parameters for Urban Heat Island in Singapore’s Residential Settlements

Elif Esra AYDIN, F. Peter Ortner, Anna Yenardi, Zebin Chen, Jing Zhi Tay

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Hierarchical Co-generation of Parcels and Streets in Urban Modeling

Zebin Chen, Peng Song, and F. Peter Ortner

Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics)

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2023

Urban Fabric Generation: A comparative analysis of multiple vector field methods

F. Peter Ortner, Zebin Chen*, Peng Song, Pengyun Qiu
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Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe)

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Design Space Recommendation: Assisting Users to Manage Complexity in Urban Design Optimisation

Jing Zhi Tay, F. Peter Ortner, Peng Song, Anna Claudia Yenardi, Zebin Chen

International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures (CAAD Futures)

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2021

City Size Based Scaling of the Urban Internal Nodes Layout

Wenhan Feng, Bayi Li, Zebin Chen, Peng Liu

PLOS ONE

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