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Political Legitimacy and Housing: Singapore's Stakeholder Society

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Singapore's successful public housing programme is a source of political legitimacy for the ruling People's Action Party . This text accounts for the success of public housing in Singapore and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, it explains, is seen neither as a consumer good nor as a social right . 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 public housing programme has done much for Singapore.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Routledge

Release: October 23, 1997

ISBN: 041516690X

ISBN 13: 9780415166904

Political Legitimacy and Housing: Singapore's Stakeholder Society

4/5 ( ratings)

Singapore's successful public housing programme is a source of political legitimacy for the ruling People's Action Party . This text accounts for the success of public housing in Singapore and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, it explains, is seen neither as a consumer good nor as a social right . 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 public housing programme has done much for Singapore.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Routledge

Release: October 23, 1997

ISBN: 041516690X

ISBN 13: 9780415166904

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