City Infrastructure
description
Transcript of City Infrastructure
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
URA
• 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
Thank you
Questions?