City Infrastructure

Done By: Ang Ray Yan Bryan S Wang Lim Han Xin Ng Soon Zhou

Contents• Background / Basic Information

• URA / Urban Planning

• Ethnicity issues

• According to the worldwide quality of living survey,• Singapore is top in city infrastructure

• All this goes to improvement in• transport• communications• supply• Housing• etc……

• City infrastructure is important in the way people are housed around Singapore

Background Information

• Also Known as the Urban Redevelopment Authority

• In charge of land management (long term plans)• Create self-sufficient districts to reduce travelling time

• Challenges• Housing – Maximum Density needed to house growing

population• Land reclamation

• The central area is one the main business districts• Shopping centres / offices in area• Convenient for gatherings

• Residential Estates located in other parts of Singapore• Transport systems improve convenience• Separate districts reduce travelling distance

• Trees around everywhere• Reduce harmful gases from environment• Planted everywhere around neighbourhoods/roads

Urban Planning

• A constant challenge to increase the number of homes every year needs to be met.

Urban Planning

• Singapore is a multi-ethnical society

• In the past during Raffles’s time, districts were grouped Ethnically.

• Introduction of Ethnic Integration Policy (HDB)• Fixed quota of ethnic proportion• If exceeded, applicant of a certain race will be

rejected

Ethnicity Issues

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