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Planning Singapore - The Experimental City (Hardcover)
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Planning Singapore - The Experimental City (Hardcover)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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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.
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