Singapore Day 2
A typical HDB flat, behind is the highest HDB flat, the 50 storeys Duxton.
Walked to Red Dot Design Museum.
Dog drawing competition
Award winning utensils and Tupperwares with ergonomic design.
Self standing umbrella, how useful is that.
Just right across is URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority) office. On the second floor there is a city gallery which shows how Singapore has developed over the past years as well as showing how the urban planning was done.
Singapore is divided into few districts such as West, North, North East and Central.
Model of the Central district.
Model of Singapore Island.
Singapore has the 2nd highest density of population after Monaco. The population has grown almost 20% for the past 5 years. Even though the land size of Singapore has grown from 580sqkm to 710 sqkm now by landfilling, Singapore is still a more crowded place than before.
Singapore is a well planned city and is runned like a private enterprise with a Concept Plan which is to guide development in the next 40-50 years and is reviewed every 10 years. While the Master Plan is used to guide development for the medium term in the next 10-15 years.
Singapore’s Master Plan 2008
Map
Challenges for the expanding Singapore, the country needs land for water catchment needs, there is a limit to building higher buildings because of height restrictions around airport areas and need more land for self defenses training. Singapore air forces do their practical in training base overseas because the country air field is too limited.
The solution is to build cities underground in the future. 50 meters below ground is the sewage system so the underground city will be just above it.
A bird eye view of the business district
It’s quite educational visiting the URA office.
Not far away is Chinatown
Took bus 80 from Chinatown to Kowan towards the North East directions passing by the city.
Took the metro back to Little India. Indian Food (SD$4)
Visited Geyland which is famous for food and also a legal place for prostitution in Singapore. Then met up with a friend and visited Club Attica (SD$28 including 2 drinks) at Clark Quey area.
