Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1402065418 ISBN 13: 9781402065415

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 2008

Riassunto

This book analyses and provides an insight to Singapore’s planning system and practices associated with sustainable development. It takes a reflective approach in reviewing the direction, impact and significance of sustainable development in Singapore planning and the future challenges facing the city-state, which is often looked upon by many developing countries as a model.

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The book is intended to be a landmark publication to showcase Singapore academics’ and practising planners’ work and thinking in the globalisation age. The book takes a reflective approach in reviewing the direction, impact and significance of sustainable development in Singapore planning and the future challenges facing the city-state looked upon by many developing countries as a ‘model’.

The book analyses and provides an insight to Singapore’s planning system and practices associated with sustainable development. It contributes and produces an impact on urban planning literature in a renewed perspective about Singapore that reflects the reality and need to address sustainability in the triangular relationship of economic, environmental and social developments.

Audience:
University libraries, students and government agencies with an interest in understanding the rationale of policy formation, planning system and its implementation in Singapore.

Contenuti:

Introduction Planning the World Metropolis at Island-City Scale: Urban Innovation as a Constraint and Tool in Global Change Nature and Environmental Sustainability: A Study of Singapore Experience Remaking of Singapore’s Chinatown in Search of a More Sustainable Development Singapore’s Nature: Past, Present and Future Above the Tideline: Sustainable Waterfront Planning Practices in Singapore Sustainable City Centre Development: The Singapore City Centre in the Context of Sustainable Development Singapore’s Urban Transport: Sustainability by Design or Necessity? Sustainable Industrial Development in Singapore Sustainable Housing Form: Public Housing Development in Singapore Sustainable Recreational Space: The Controversial Integrated Resorts in Singapore Condominium in Singapore as a ‘Laboratory of Sustainable Housing Development’ in Southeast Asia Conclusion

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• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402065418
• ISBN 13: 9781402065415
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 217
• Redattore: Wong Tai-Chee, Yuen Belinda, Goldblum Charles