City and the State Singapore's Built Environment Revisited

by Ling, Ooi Giok; Kwok, Kenson

• ISBN13: 9780195882636
• ISBN10: 0195882636
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection takes a fresh look at Singapore's built environment in the thirty years since independence by highlighting past, present, and future land-use planning and development.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Planning Singapore	1	(12)
Ooi Giok Ling
Kenson Kwok
Chapter 1 Planning the Built Environment for Now and the 21st Century	13	(18)
Sim Loo Lee
Chapter 2 Towards a Tropical City of Excellence	31	(13)
Liu Thai Ker
Chapter 3 Town Councils in Public Housing Estates: Change and Implications	44	(21)
Ooi Giok Ling
Chapter 4 The Built Environment and Transport	65	(13)
Phang Sock Yong
Chapter 5 The Political Economy of the Built Environment Revisited	78	(30)
Linda Low
Chapter 6 Planning of the Built Environment and Business	108	(24)
Ooi Giok Ling
Chapter 7 Culture and Identity in the Public Housing Environment	132	(13)
Sharon Siddique
Chapter 8 Lack-of-Fit: Effects of the Public Housing Programme on the Poor and the Elderly	145	(17)
Myrna Blake
Chapter 9 Ethnic Relations and the Management of Ethnic Differences in a Residential Community	162	(25)
Lai Ah Eng
Chapter 10 Singapore's Garden City: Translating Environmental Possibilism	187	(16)
Victor Savage
Chapter 11 Earthquake Tremors and High-rise Buildings	203	(21)
Kog Yue Choong
T. Balendra
Chapter 12 Fear of Crime and Sense of Security in Public Housing Estates	224	(22)
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Yeow Pei Lin
Contributors	246