Foreword
Chan Heng Chee
Acknowledgements
The Contributors
Chapter 1 Planning Singapore: Challenges and Choices
Stephen Hamnett and Belinda Yuen
Chapter 2 Re-examining Singapore’s Urban Planning and Governance
Framework
Tan Shin Bin and Donald Low
Chapter 3 Singapore’s Economic Development: The Dilemma of Managing
Success
John Powers
Chapter 4 More than just a Roof over One’s Head: Lifestyle Diversity and
Dynamics in Singapore Public Housing
Tan Ern Ser and Paveena Seah
Chapter 5 Nature in the City 1
Lena Chan
Chapter 6 Recycling Water and Waste in Singapore
Corinne Ong, Lyle Fearnley, Quek Ri An and Chia Siow Boon
Chapter 7 The Challenge of Climate Change for Singapore
Peter Newman
Chapter 8 Singapore’s Changing Relationship with Cars
Paul Barter
Chapter 9 Singapore’s Integrated Transit-Oriented Planning and Land
Value Capture: A Model for Others?
John Good
Chapter 10 Planning the Experimental City
Belinda Yuen and Stephen Hamnett
Index
Stephen Hamnett is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of South Australia and a Commissioner of the Environment, Resources and Development Court of South Australia.
Belinda Yuen is Professorial Research Fellow and Research Director at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Planning Singapore: The Experimental City is a comprehensive expert
analysis of contemporary Singapore by experienced urbanists. A
democratic authoritarian government has guided Singapore’s urban
development with exceptional success, transitioning Singapore into
a significant global city. It has successfully provided housing to
a large proportion of the population. In parallel the Singapore
economy has grown steadily with the support of government firms and
foreign multinationals. Challenges include a slowly emerging gig
economy, growing social inequality and a need for enhanced
opportunity for creativity and innovation. The authors have
provided a readable, nuanced, assessment of a well planned global
hub.Dean ForbesMatthew Flinders Distinguished Professor
EmeritusFlinders University, Adelaide, South AustraliaNow two
centuries since Raffles planted the British flag on the site of the
ancient kingdom of Temasek, we know for certain that his instincts
about the island’s potential greatness were correct. The experts
that Hamnett and Yuen have assembled in Planning Singapore: The
Experimental City enable us to understand how Singapore’s unique
and highly integrated planning and governance approach, with its
experimental qualities, will guide its future.Christopher
SilverProfessorUrban and Regional PlanningUniversity of Florida,
Gainesville
Planning Singapore: The Experimental City is a comprehensive expert
analysis of contemporary Singapore by experienced urbanists. A
democratic authoritarian government has guided Singapore’s urban
development with exceptional success, transitioning Singapore into
a significant global city. It has successfully provided housing to
a large proportion of the population. In parallel the Singapore
economy has grown steadily with the support of government firms and
foreign multinationals. Challenges include a slowly emerging gig
economy, growing social inequality and a need for enhanced
opportunity for creativity and innovation. The authors have
provided a readable, nuanced, assessment of a well planned global
hub.Dean ForbesMatthew Flinders Distinguished Professor
EmeritusFlinders University, Adelaide, South AustraliaNow two
centuries since Raffles planted the British flag on the site of the
ancient kingdom of Temasek, we know for certain that his instincts
about the island’s potential greatness were correct. The experts
that Hamnett and Yuen have assembled in Planning Singapore: The
Experimental City enable us to understand how Singapore’s unique
and highly integrated planning and governance approach, with its
experimental qualities, will guide its future.Christopher
SilverProfessorUrban and Regional PlanningUniversity of Florida,
GainesvilleThis is an important reference point for urban planning
students and researchers alike. It tells much of the Singapore
story so far in a concise and informative way but it also includes
important elements of reflection on and criticism of its meaning
for urban planning elsewhere and signposts some of the likely
future twists and turns in this remarkable tale.Nicholas A. Phelps,
Urban Policy and Research, November 2019
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