03168nam 2200637Ia 450 991045489010332120200520144314.01-134-70599-91-280-32895-90-203-07618-4(CKB)111056485532568(EBL)179817(OCoLC)437082347(SSID)ssj0000223616(PQKBManifestationID)11173649(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223616(PQKBWorkID)10182836(PQKB)11523860(MiAaPQ)EBC179817(PPN)19845094X(Au-PeEL)EBL179817(CaPaEBR)ebr10057281(CaONFJC)MIL32895(EXLCZ)9911105648553256819970402d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPolitical legitimacy and housing[electronic resource] stakeholding in Singapore /Chua Beng-HuatLondon ;New York Routledge19971 online resource (203 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-16690-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-180) and indexes.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 environment7. Public housing and political legitimacy8. Nostalgia for the kampung; Notes; References; Author index; Subject indexSingapore'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 thePublic housingSingaporePublic housingGovernment policySingaporeCity planningSingaporeElectronic books.Public housingPublic housingGovernment policyCity planning363.5/85/095957363.585095957Chua Beng Huat896138MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454890103321Political legitimacy and housing2001827UNINA