Political Legitimacy and Housing: Singapore's Stakeholder Society

by Chua,Beng-Huat

• ISBN13: 9780415166904
• ISBN10: 041516690X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Chua Beng-Huat accounts for the success of public housing and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, he explains, is seen neither as a consumer good --as in the US--nor as a social right--as in the social democracies of Europe. He goes on to look at the ways in which Singapore's planners have dealt with the problems of creating communities in a modern urban environment and demonstrates how this success has strengthened the legitimacy of the ruling elite.

Table of Contents

List of figures	x
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction: some necessary conditions for a successful public-housing policy	1	(11)
Public-housing policies compared: United States, ex-socialist nations and Singapore	12	(15)
From city to nation: planning Singapore	27	(24)
Resettling a Chinese village: a longitudinal study	51	(19)
Modernism and the vernacular: public spaces and social life	70	(20)
Adjusting religious practices to different house-forms	90	(23)
A practicable concept of community in a high-rise housing environment	113	(11)
Public housing and political legitimacy	124	(28)
Nostalgia for the kampung	152	(16)
Notes	168	(6)
References	174	(7)
Author index	181	(3)
Subject index	184