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0 pointsmytailorisrich6y ago0 comments

> If you want to see a good example of urban planning look at Singapore. Everything appears to be a park, road, tree or building and there’s plenty of the first two.

I'm not disagreeing with that. This is very far from the examples you cited, and more in line with large buildings surrounded by parks that I mentioned. In fact Singapore has drawn on Le Corbusier's idea of "Unité d'habitation" (which I mentioned in another comment)...

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barry-cotter6y ago· 2 in thread

Dense urban areas with mixed residential, commercial and retail spaces all within walking distance of each other are the antithesis of Le Corbusier’s vision of a perfect city. He would have been appalled by Singapore, if possibly less appalled than by Paris which he would have liked to raze to the ground and rebuild.

mantap6y ago

Singapore is only dense in the vertical dimension, it's not dense in the horizontal dimensions.

mytailorisrichOP6y ago

Please, and for the last time, look at "unité d'habitation" and how it has inspired many developments in Singapore.

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