Limin Hee is Director of Research at Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a nexus and knowledge centre for liveable and sustainable cities. Under Dr Hee’s leadership, the CLC has developed its signature Urban Systems Studies series, which capture the practices and knowledge underlying Singapore’s transformation over the last 50 years. She is also the project lead for collaborative research projects, including research and publications with the Urban Land Institute such as Creating Liveable Cities though Car-lite Urban Mobility, Creating Healthy Places through Active Mobility, and 10 Principles for Highly Dense, Liveable Cities, and multi-agency efforts to promote thoughtful design to enhance liveability in new towns, and research on how to make sustainable, integrated districts as prototypes of future living in Singapore.
Prior to joining the CLC, she taught at the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore, where she was also Principal Investigator at the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities and led the Urban Studies Cluster at the Department of Architecture. Dr Hee has published widely on cities, including in international refereed journals and architectural reviews. Her forthcoming and recent books include A City in Blue and Green: A Singapore Story (Springer: 2019 - forthcoming), Constructing Singapore Public Space (Springer: 2016) and Future Asian Space (NUS Press: 2012). She received her Doctor of Design from Harvard University, and her Master of Arts (Architecture) and professional degree in Architecture from the National University of Singapore.