Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Global Development and Planning

   1. Sustainability Planning and Its Theory and Practice: An Introduction

      • Tai-Chee Wong, Charles Goldblum

      Pages 1-13

   2. Planning the World Metropolis on an Island-City Scale: Urban Innovation as a Constraint and Tool for Global Change

      • Charles Goldblum

      Pages 17-29

   3. Sustainable City Centre Development: The Singapore City Centre in the Context of Sustainable Development

      • Ole Johan Dale

      Pages 31-57

   4. Integrated Resort in the Central Business District of Singapore: The Land Use Planning and Sustainability Issues

      • Tai-Chee Wong

      Pages 59-78

   5. Singapore River: Six Strategies for Sustainability

      • Chwee Lye Low

      Pages 79-92

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.

• Singapore
• design
• environment
• global city
• innovation
• model
• nature conservation
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• urban planning practices
• urban sustainable development
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• urban geography and urbanism

• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  Tai-Chee Wong

• National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Belinda Yuen

• Université de Paris VIII, France

  Charles Goldblum