附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-180)-and indexes.
1. Public-housing policies compared : United States, 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 a high-rise housing environment -- 7. Public housing and political legitimacy -- 8. Nostalgia for the kampung.
摘要:Looking at the ways in which Singapore's planners have dealt with the problems of creating communities in a modern urban environment, the author concludes that the success of the public housing programme has done much for the nation.
