Singapore has got to be one of
the best places in the world to live.
For anyone wanting to live in Asia and likes or can tolerate the
tropical climate and is comfortable to communicate in English, Mandarin or Bahasa
Indonesia/Melayu, the country should be high on you list of best places to live!
One of the key factors in making
it the quality location it is, the good governance which puts a high emphasis
on City Planning. The Urban Redevelopment Authority
(URA), the National Parks Board, the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the Public
Works and Housing Development Board (HDB) to name a few are all world
class.
With the shortage of land and
growing population the government has had to innovate in the city planning to continue
to improve and accommodate the population’s needs. Singapore has a long history of
developing new products from Hawker Centers, Community Centers, Public Housing,
Integrated Resorts and the latest the Community
Hubs.
So what is a Community
Hub? In short it might be described as putting all the community
amenities that Sinapore has developed into one site compacted and developing
vertically. This not only
requires some sound planning to integrate and separate but also to take
advantage of shared facilities, but it can only
be possible with a strong central government that can make critical policy
decisions to integrate all the various agencies for the better good of the
population!
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| Artist Impression Our Tampines Hub (Source: Straits Times Internet) |
