新加坡华人对中国的贡献 ：新加坡城市规划之父刘太格个案研究 = Contributions of Singaporean Chinese to China : a case study on Singapore’s father of city planning Liu Thai Ker

• Main Author: 冯时辉 Phang, Shi Hwee
• Other Authors: Yow Cheun Hoe
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: Chinese
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76514
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

新加坡虽是东南亚最后一个与中国建交的国家，然而却也为促进中国现代发展提供重要推力。在众多个针对新加坡华人对中国贡献的研究中，绝大多数皆注重经济投资、教育影响等贡献，而承担着两国建交起源的城市规划及发展的领域却是学界未发掘的。本论文将以刘太格博士的城市规划经验为研究对象，旨在填补一个重要的学术空白——尝试了解并探讨新加坡华人在中国城市病问题日益加剧的背景下所做出的贡献。自中国改革开放以来，中国城市化发展之速带来了非常巨大的经济效应，但同时却也引发一系列因人口过度集中而导致的城市病问题。在此背景下，不少学者不禁开始质疑其高人口密度的发展道路。然而，新加坡土地面积小、人口密度却异常高的宜居城市发展道路却成功颠覆了人口密度低才能宜居的观念，同时更为现今中国城市病问题提供了一套解决方案。文中通过对刘太格博士在西咸新区及珠海项目的研究，总结出新加坡的城市规划模式不仅成功解决西咸新区自身的城市病问题，同时也成功疏解珠三角城市群人口过度聚集的区域城市病问题，以此证明刘博士在中国城市规划的贡献。Despite being the last country in Southeast Asia to establish diplomatic relations with China, Singapore played an integral role in their modern development. Majority of the research papers discussing on Singapore’s contribution to China investigated mainly on the economic investment and educational aspects. However, in the fields of urban planning and development which bears the origins to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries was left unexplored by the academic circles. This thesis will focus on Dr. Liu Thai Ker ‘s urban planning experience and aims to fill an important academic gap - attempting to understand and explore the contributions of Singaporean Chinese in the context of rising urban disease in China. Since China’s reform and opening up, the rapid urbanization of China has brought about a huge economic effect, however at the same time it also triggered many cases of urban diseases caused by excessive population concentration. In this context, the academic circle starts to question the high population density development path in China. However, the development of a livable city with a small land area and a high population density in Singapore has successfully subverted the popular notion that livable conditions can only be satisfied if population density remains low. At the same time, it also provided a solution to China’s urban disease problem. Through the research on Dr. Liu Thai Ker in Xixian New Area and Zhuhai Project, this paper concludes that Singapore's urban planning model not only successfully mitigated the urban disease problem in Xixian New Area, it also successfully dissolves the regional urban disease problem experienced in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration, which proves the contribution of Dr. Liu in China.