| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Sustainability planning and its theory and practice: an introduction / Tai-Chee Wong and Charles Goldblum -- Planning the world metropolis on an island-city scale: urban innovation as a constraint and tool for global change / Charles Goldblum -- Sustainable city centre development: the Singapore City Centre in the context of sustainable development / Ole Johan Dale -- Integrated resort in the Central Business District of Singapore: the land use planning and sustainability issues / Tai-Chee Wong -- Singapore River: six strategies for sustainability / Chwee Lye Low -- Singapore's urban transport: sustainability by design or necessity? / Paul A. Barter -- Achieving sustainable industrial development through a system of strategic planning and implementation: the Singapore model / Kum Chun Seetoh and Amanda Hwee Fang Ong -- Public housing in Singapore: a sustainable housing form and development / Tony Tan Keng Joo and Tai-Chee Wong -- Vertical living and the garden city: the sustainability of an urban figure / Xavier Guillot -- Nature and sustainability of the marine environment / Loke Ming Chou -- Singapore's natural environment, past, present and future: a construct of national identity and land use imperatives / Min Geh and Ilsa Sharp -- Conclusion: beyond sustainable development? / Belinda Yuen |
| Summary |
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 sustaina |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
City planning -- Singapore
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Sustainable development -- Singapore
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Land use, Urban -- Singapore
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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Environnement.
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Sciences de la terre.
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City planning
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Land use, Urban
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Sustainable development
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Singapore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wong, Tai-Chee.
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Yuen, Belinda K. P.
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Goldblum, Charles.
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| LC no. |
2008920064 |
| ISBN |
9781402065422 |
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1402065426 |
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9781402065415 |
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1402065418 |
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