"Singapore has balanced the need for density with providing public space"
Channel: Dezeen
Date: 2014-01-27

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Colin Seah of Ministry of Design shows us examples of how Singapore is responding to the challenge of housing a growing population without sacrificing its green spaces in our second movie from the city.

"It has been a perennial issue," says Seah. "How do you house five to seven million people on an island that would fit into Lake Geneva?"

"The government could have just said: 'let's not control it, let's have sprawl and have more people living in houses'. But the strategy instead was to protect public spaces and green areas."

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http://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/17/movie-colin-seah-ministry-of-design-singapore-housing-public-spaces/