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Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore

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Editors:
  1. Tai-Chee Wong

    1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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  2. Belinda Yuen

    1. National University of Singapore, Singapore

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  3. Charles Goldblum

    1. Université de Paris VIII, France

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Transport, Industrial, Housing and Nature Planning

    1. Singapore's Urban Transport: Sustainability by Design or Necessity?

      • Paul A. Barter
      Pages 95-112

    2. Achieving Sustainable Industrial Development Through a System of Strategic Planning and Implementation: The Singapore Model

      • Kum Chun Seetoh, Amanda Hwee Fang Ong
      Pages 113-133

    3. Public Housing in Singapore: A Sustainable Housing Form and Development

      • Tony Tan Keng Joo, Tai-Chee Wong
      Pages 135-150

    4. Vertical Living and the Garden City: The Sustainability of an Urban Figure

      • Xavier Guillot
      Pages 151-167

    5. Nature and Sustainability of the Marine Environment

      • Loke Ming Chou
      Pages 169-182

    6. Singapore's Natural Environment, Past, Present and Future: A Construct of National Identity and Land Use Imperatives

      • Min Geh, Ilsa Sharp
      Pages 183-204

    7. Conclusion: Beyond Sustainable Development?

      • Belinda Yuen
      Pages 205-209

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 211-217
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In the last four decades, Singapore’s urban development has gradually received an international reputation. From a city of just under two million people in 1960, we replaced squatters and slums with mostly high-rise, high-density public housing as well as industrial estates, commercial centres and parks and gardens. We dem- strated to our earlier well-meaning critics that a high-rise housing programme need not be automatically doomed to failure. Indeed Singapore now serves as an ex- ple of shaping successful residential communities to the massive population of Asia. Our city is now at nearly 4. 5 million people. It is green and clean, with fl- ing traffic, functioning infrastructure and proper space allocated for every urban need. It is no longer as clinical as it was in the 1970s, as we can afford to go beyond the basic needs and have added finer and more colourful things to our cityscape. Yet, when people ask me for books to provide an overview of the experience of our urban transformation, there are sadly very few. Singaporeans are more workers than writers. Not enough people have recorded how we did it, or shared the expe- ence with people in other countries, or even with our own younger urban planners and administrators who are less familiar with the historical perspective. This matter is becoming very pressing as most pioneers who went through the start up process of transformation have retired by now.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Tai-Chee Wong

  • National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Belinda Yuen

  • Université de Paris VIII, France

    Charles Goldblum

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