Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global helps to shape sustainable cities and settlement systems through science, by design, in place, over time, by bringing transdisciplinary and distinctive European and Asian perspectives to this global mission. Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global is a research collaboration between ETH Zurich and the Singapore universities – National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) – with support from the National Research Foundation (NRF). It operates under the auspices of the Singapore-​ETH Centre (SEC).