Format:
Online-Ressource (203 p)
ISBN:
9780415166904
Content:
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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Description based upon print version of record
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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
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7. Public housing and political legitimacy8. Nostalgia for the kampung; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203076187
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415166904
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Political Legitimacy and Housing : Singapore's Stakeholder Society
Language:
English
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