URBAN PLANNING · SPATIAL RESEARCH · PUBLIC SPACE

Cities are systems.
But people live the details.

I’m Gaibul — an urban planner and spatial researcher working across public space, neighbourhood experience, mobility, environmental systems and inclusive urban development.

↓Selected
work

Qualitative interviews✦GIS & spatial analysis✦Public space✦Urban systems✦Participatory planning✦Mobility✦Urban research✦ Qualitative interviews✦GIS & spatial analysis✦Public space✦Urban systems✦Participatory planning✦Mobility✦Urban research✦

01 / SELECTED WORK

Planning that moves between systems and lived experience.

01Open project ↗

ETH ZÜRICH · URBAN DESIGN STUDIO · 2025

Bridge / Use — Hermetschloo

Reframing a peripheral industrial district through physical and psychological “bridges”: safer mobility, mixed use, public space, cultural anchors and climate-adaptive design.

Urban designPublic spaceMobilityMixed use

02Open project ↗

ETH ZÜRICH · INTERDISCIPLINARY PLANNING ACTIVITY · 2025

Rhine Remix — Sisslerfeld

An interdisciplinary development strategy for a major employment landscape in Aargau, integrating public space, regional mobility, ecology, infrastructure, governance and implementation.

Regional planningGISEcologyGovernance

foodmap.gaibul.com

SINGAPOREFood Journeyplaces worth remembering

03 Live projectOpen live map ↗

PERSONAL WEB MAPPING PROJECT · SINGAPORE

Singapore Food Map

A live interactive map project built around one of my favourite ways of understanding a city: through food, neighbourhoods and places worth remembering.

Web mappingSingaporeInteractiveLive project

SPA DELHI · 2022

Street as Public Place

Using planning regulation and street design to strengthen public life on Thiruvananthapuram’s MG Road.

PlacemakingStreet life

SPA DELHI · 2022

Canal-Oriented Development

A neighbourhood plan built from household surveys, land suitability and a water-led public-space structure.

Site planningSurveys

SPA DELHI · 2021

Transit Access at the Local Scale

Accessibility, network and last-mile analysis around Jasola Vihar–Shaheen Bagh metro station in Delhi.

MobilityAccessibility

02 / RESEARCH LENS

I like the part of planning where the map meets everyday life.

MASTER'S THESIS · ETH ZÜRICH · 5.75/6

Home Beyond the Dwelling

Walking and semi-structured interviews, route documentation and contextual observation across two Zurich neighbourhoods to understand how routines, encounters, familiarity and comfort shape a sense of home beyond the dwelling.

Walking interviewsSpatial observationQualitative analysis

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FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY · SINGAPORE-ETH CENTRE

Experienced Urban Vitality

Mapped and analysed survey-based spatial datasets from Zürich and Singapore to examine relationships between public space, social interaction, well-being and emotional connection.

QGISRSurvey dataResearch visualisation

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Planner by training.
Researcher by instinct.

I work across qualitative research and spatial analysis: from talking and walking with people through neighbourhoods to mapping land use, mobility, environmental systems and public-space patterns.

That mix lets me move between the human scale and the systems scale — and translate both into planning strategy.

EducationETH Zürich
SPA Delhi

MethodsInterviews · GIS · R · Python · Policy analysis

ExperienceSingapore · Switzerland · India

LanguagesEnglish · Hindi · Punjabi · German · Japanese

2026MSc Spatial Development & Infrastructure SystemsETH Zürich

2025Research Assistant InternFuture Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre

2024Bachelor of PlanningSchool of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

LET'S TALK ABOUT CITIES

gaibulbhullar@gmail.com ↗

Cities are systems.But people live the details.