AY1516 T2 Team WalkThere Overview
Project Background
The concept of new towns dates back to the late 1800s where the cities in UK became more crowded with poor living conditions. In 1898, Ebenezer Howard provide ideas on how we can improve our quality of life by imagining “garden cities” being surrounded by a “country belt” which was known as the “new towns movement” (Little, 1990)
In Singapore, new town planning is done by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). Queenstown was the first new town to be built when the new town concept was first introduced in Singapore. Currently, there are a total of 22 new towns in Singapore. These new towns have three key features which include high accessibility to public transportation, mixed land use and lots of greenery within the town.
Out of these new towns, Tampines is known to be the most outstanding and well-planned new town in Singapore. Built in the 1970s, Tampines new town has since developed into an institutional, social, recreational and commercial hub of the eastern part of Singapore. Its new town model has even won an award for its outstanding housing design and contribution to human settlement development. Now, it is home to over 200,000 people with a population density of 47,000 people/km.
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