The morphology of planning in an urban laboratory Available to Purchase

In many respects, Singapore represents an urban laboratory in which several of the panaceas of contemporary town planning theory have been tested and successfully implemented. Urban poverty has been almost eradicated as planners and policy‐makers have experimented with textbook prescriptions on service hierarchies, public housing and integrated transport to control urbanisation pressures and channel growth, according to a carefully planned spatial distribution of land‐use activities. The economic and environmental benefits are there for all to see. This paper traces the morphology of development plans within a physical planning regime which has provided the policy framework for a complete restructuring of the urban fabric and helped guide long‐term development towards the achievement of specific planning goals.