Main entry:

Ooi, Giok Ling.

Title & Author:

Future of space : planning, space, and the city / Ooi Giok Ling.

Publication:

Singapore : Eastern Universities Press, 2004.

Description:

x, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Geography & environmental research

Notes:
Published in cooperation with the Institute of Policy Studies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276) and index.
Policy, planning, and urban space -- Centralised planning, urban redevelopment, and new towns -- Framing sustainability : beyond the garden city -- Colonial, postcolonial, and global impact on the shaping of public space -- Shopping and retail space -- Politics, the public housing process, and space in Singapore -- Recreational space : open spaces and parks in cities -- Politics of differences and spaces of indifference.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Urban space in Singapore is a scarce resource upon which different groups in the city draw. In this way, urban space is contested territory. This book presents a review of the politics and rationale of spatial planning, as well as the social processes involved in the provision and shaping of urban space - industrial, residential, retail, public space - which affects its availability to the citizenry in the city. The focus is on research done in the city-state of Singapore, considering what the urban space we now have means to Singaporeans and the implications for space in the future." "Emphasis is also placed on a forward looking discussion of the processes - social, economic and political - that have shaped the meaning of urban space and its use at the everyday and more episodic levels, and current concerns among the international research community will be highlighted in the discussion of our needs for space and its planning here in Singapore."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9812102736
9789812102737

Subject:

City planning Singapore.
Urban policy Singapore.
Land use, Urban Singapore.
Politique urbaine Singapour.
Utilisation urbaine du sol Singapour.
City planning
Land use, Urban
Urban policy
Singapore

Added entries:

Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore)
Geography & environment research.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232802
Call No.: HT169.S55 O58 2004
Status: Available