Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore

ISBN-13: 9781402065415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 217 str.

Tai-Chee Wong; Belinda Yuen; Charles Goldblum

Opis

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."

Spis treści

Introduction Planning the World Metropolis at Island-City Scale: Urban Innovation as a Constraint and Tool in Global Change Nature and Environmental Sustainability: A Study of Singapore Experience Remaking of Singapore’s Chinatown in Search of a More Sustainable Development Singapore’s Nature: Past, Present and Future Above the Tideline: Sustainable Waterfront Planning Practices in Singapore Sustainable City Centre Development: The Singapore City Centre in the Context of Sustainable Development Singapore’s Urban Transport: Sustainability by Design or Necessity? Sustainable Industrial Development in Singapore Sustainable Housing Form: Public Housing Development in Singapore Sustainable Recreational Space: The Controversial Integrated Resorts in Singapore Condominium in Singapore as a ‘Laboratory of Sustainable Housing Development’ in Southeast Asia Conclusion

Blurb

The book is intended to be a landmark publication to showcase Singapore academics’ and practising planners’ work and thinking in the globalisation age. The book takes a reflective approach in reviewing the direction, impact and significance of sustainable development in Singapore planning and the future challenges facing the city-state looked upon by many developing countries as a ‘model’.

The book analyses and provides an insight to Singapore’s planning system and practices associated with sustainable development. It contributes and produces an impact on urban planning literature in a renewed perspective about Singapore that reflects the reality and need to address sustainability in the triangular relationship of economic, environmental and social developments.

Audience:
University libraries, students and government agencies with an interest in understanding the rationale of policy formation, planning system and its implementation in Singapore.