1st Edition
Political Legitimacy and Housing Singapore's Stakeholder Society
By Beng-Huat Chua
Copyright 1997
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Public Housing policies compared: US, ex-socialist nations and Singapore, 2. From city to nation: planning Singapore, 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 high rise housing environment, 7. Public Housing and political legitimacy, 8. Return of the imaginary Kampung as resistance
Biography
Chua, Beng-Huat
