Political Legitimacy and Housing : Singapore's Stakeholder Society.

Political Legitimacy and Housing : Singapore's Stakeholder Society.

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.

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Main Author: Chua, Beng-Huat
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:
Public housing > Singapore.
Public housing > Government policy > Singapore.
City planning > Singapore.
City planning
Public housing
Public housing > Government policy
Singapore
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: some necessary conditions for a successful public-housing policy; Public-housing policies compared: United States, ex-socialist nations and Singapore; From city to nation: planning Singapore; Resettling a Chinese village: a longitudinal study; Modernism and the vernacular: public spaces and social life; Adjusting religious practices to different house-forms; A practicable concept of community in a high-rise housing environment; Public housing and political legitimacy; Nostalgia for the kampung; Notes.
  • ReferencesAuthor index; Subject index.

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