Planning Singapore: the experimental city

Planning Singapore : challenges and choices / Stephen Hamnett and Belinda Yuen -- Re-examining Singapore's urban planning and governance framework / Tan Shin Bin and Donald Low -- Singapore's economic development : the dilemma of managing success / John Powers -- More than just a roof over...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hamnett, Stephen (HerausgeberIn), Yuen, Belinda (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge 2021
Ausgabe:First issued in paperback
Schriftenreihe:Planning, history and environment series
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Zusammenfassung:Planning Singapore : challenges and choices / Stephen Hamnett and Belinda Yuen -- Re-examining Singapore's urban planning and governance framework / Tan Shin Bin and Donald Low -- Singapore's economic development : the dilemma of managing success / John Powers -- More than just a roof over one's head : lifestyle diversity and dynamics in Singapore public housing / Tan Ern Ser and Paveena Seah -- Nature in the city / Lena Chan -- Recycling water and waste in Singapore / Corinne Ong, Lyle Fearnley, Quek Ri An and Chia Siow Boon -- The challenge of climate change for Singapore / Peter Newman -- Singapore's changing relationship with cars / Paul Barter -- Singapore's integrated transit-oriented planning and land value capture : a model for others? / John Good -- Planning the experimental city / Belinda Yuen and Stephen Hamnett
"Singapore's planning system, innovation and future economy, housing, biodiversity, water and waste, climate change, transport, and the potential transferability of Singapore's planning knowledge. A key question is whether the planning approaches, which have served Singapore so well until now, will suffice to meet the emerging challenges of a changing global economy, demographic shifts, new technologies and the existential threat of climate change. Singapore as a global city is becoming more unequal and more diverse. This has the potential to weaken the social compact which has largely existed since independence and to undermine the social resilience undoubtedly needed to cope with the shocks and disruptions of the twenty-first century. The book concludes, however, that Singapore is better-placed than most to respond to the challenges which it will certainly face"--
Beschreibung:XII, 244 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:9781032241166

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