Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wong, Tai-Chee (Editor), Yuen, Belinda (Editor), Goldblum, Charles (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Architecture.; City planning.; Nature conservation.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Urbanism.; Nature Conservation.; Cities, Countries, Regions.

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 fu...

Table of Contents:

• Global Development and Planning
• Sustainability Planning and Its Theory and Practice: An Introduction
• Planning the World Metropolis on an Island-City Scale: Urban Innovation as a Constraint and Tool for Global Change
• Sustainable City Centre Development: The Singapore City Centre in the Context of Sustainable Development
• Integrated Resort in the Central Business District of Singapore: The Land Use Planning and Sustainability Issues
• Singapore River: Six Strategies for Sustainability
• Transport, Industrial, Housing and Nature Planning
• Singapore's Urban Transport: Sustainability by Design or Necessity?
• Achieving Sustainable Industrial Development Through a System of Strategic Planning and Implementation: The Singapore Model
• Public Housing in Singapore: A Sustainable Housing Form and Development
• Vertical Living and the Garden City: The Sustainability of an Urban Figure
• Nature and Sustainability of the Marine Environment
• Singapore's Natural Environment, Past, Present and Future: A Construct of National Identity and Land Use Imperatives
• Conclusion: Beyond Sustainable Development?.