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

• Autore: Chua Beng Huat
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.5/85/095957; 363.585095957
• Soggetto topico: Public housing - Singapore; Public housing - Government policy - Singapore; City planning - Singapore
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Political legitimacy and housing
• ISBN: 1-134-70599-9; 1-280-32895-9; 0-203-07618-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454890103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II