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200 10$aPolitical legitimacy and housing$b[electronic resource] $estakeholding in Singapore /$fChua Beng-Huat
210   $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1997
215   $a1 online resource (203 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-415-16690-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [174]-180) and indexes.
327   $aFront 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
327   $a7. Public housing and political legitimacy8. Nostalgia for the kampung; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index
330   $aSingapore'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
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