Urban Constraints, Political Imperatives: Environmental 'Design' in Singapore

• Main Authors: Savage, Victor R., Kong, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1993
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Politics and Social Change; Urban Studies; Urban Studies and Planning
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1726; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2983/viewcontent/Konglily_1993_URBAN_CONSTRAINTS.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

What lies at the heart of the continuing efforts at social education and engineering? We argue that they stem from a political elite which recognises the constraints facing Singapore and the need to deal with them at national level. Specifically, the government in Singapore has recognised the spatia...