0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects

Buy Now

Planning Singapore - The Experimental City (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,835
Discovery Miles 28 350
Planning Singapore - The Experimental City (Hardcover): Stephen Hamnett, Belinda Yuen

Planning Singapore - The Experimental City (Hardcover)

Stephen Hamnett, Belinda Yuen

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R2,835 Discovery Miles 28 350 | Repayment Terms: R266 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore with the intent of seeing it become 'a great commercial emporium and fulcrum'. But by the time independence was achieved in 1965, the city faced daunting problems of housing shortage, slums and high unemployment. Since then, Singapore has become one of the richest countries on earth, providing, in Sir Peter Hall's words, 'perhaps the most extraordinary case of economic development in the history of the world'. The story of Singapore's remarkable achievements in the first half century after its independence is now widely known. In Planning Singapore: The Experimental City, Stephen Hamnett and Belinda Yuen have brought together a set of chapters on Singapore's planning achievements, aspirations and challenges, which are united in their focus on what might happen next in the planning of the island-state. Chapters range over 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 thanks to its outstanding systems of planning and implementation, a proven capacity to experiment and a highly developed ability to adapt quickly, purposefully and pragmatically to changing circumstances.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
Release date: May 2019
First published: 2019
Editors: Stephen Hamnett • Belinda Yuen
Dimensions: 246 x 174 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-48234-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
Promotions
LSN: 1-138-48234-X
Barcode: 9781138482340

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Quantum City
Ayssar Arida Paperback R1,441 Discovery Miles 14 410
Boundaries and Restricted Places - The…
Balkiz Yapicioglu, Konstantinos Lalenis Hardcover R3,481 Discovery Miles 34 810
Culture & Commerce - The Royal Academy…
Charles Landry Paperback R326 Discovery Miles 3 260
Global architecture for…
Pedro Luengo Paperback R2,627 Discovery Miles 26 270
How to Read Bridges - A crash course…
Edward Denison, Ian Stewart Paperback R378 Discovery Miles 3 780
A History of Street Networks - from…
Laurence Aurbach Hardcover R855 Discovery Miles 8 550
Washington, D.C. Housing Co-Ops - A…
Stephen Mckevitt Hardcover R725 Discovery Miles 7 250
How to Read Towns and Cities - A Crash…
Jonathan Glancey Paperback R494 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310
The Diaspora of Belonging…
Jay Sharma Hardcover R762 Discovery Miles 7 620
Creating Cities/Building Cities…
Peter K. Kresl Hardcover R2,992 Discovery Miles 29 920
Walkable City - How Downtown Can Save…
Jeff Speck Paperback R518 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520
Garden City - The First 150 Years
Constantine E. Theodosiou, Emmanuel C Theodosiou Hardcover R762 Discovery Miles 7 620

See more

Partners