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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454890103321

Autore

Chua Beng Huat

Titolo

Political legitimacy and housing [[electronic resource] ] : stakeholding in Singapore / / Chua Beng-Huat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-70599-9

1-280-32895-9

0-203-07618-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

363.5/85/095957

363.585095957

Soggetti

Public housing - Singapore

Public housing - Government policy - Singapore

City planning - Singapore

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-180) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Political Legitimacy and Housing; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: some necessary conditions for a successful public-housing policy; 1. Public-housing policies compared: United States, ex-socialist nations and Singapore; 2. From city to nation: planningSingapore; 3. Resettling a Chinese village: a longitudinal study; 4. Modernism and the vernacular: public spaces and social life; 5. Adjusting religious practices to different house-forms; 6. A practicable concept of community in a high-rise housing environment

7. Public housing and political legitimacy8. Nostalgia for the kampung; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Singapore's successful public housing programme is a source of political legitimacy for the ruling People's Action Party. Beng-Huat Chua accounts for the success of public housing in Singapore and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, he explains in this incisive analysis, is seen neither as a consumer good (as in the US) nor as a social right (as in the social democracies of Europe).  The author



goes on to look at the ways in which Singapore's planners have dealt with the problems of creating communities in a modern urban environment.  He concludes that the success of the