Political Legitimacy and Housing

Singapore's Stakeholder Society

Beng Huat Chua author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:23rd Oct '97

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Singapore's successful public housing programme is a source of political legitimacy for the ruling People's Action Party. Beng-Huat Chua accounts for the success of public housing in Singapore and draws out lessons for other nations. Housing in Singapore, he explains in this incisive analysis, is seen neither as a consumer good (as in the US) nor as a social right (as in the social democracies of Europe). The author goes on to look at the ways in which Singapore's planners have dealt with the problems of creating communities in a modern urban environment. He concludes that the success of the public housing programme has done much for Singapore.

ISBN: 9780415166904

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 540g

208 pages