Visual and numerical account of Singapore’s growth and redevelopment

Wealth of sources: historic maps and survey charts, aerial photographs, newspaper articles, planning documents, building surveys

Recommendations for growing and maintaining a distinct, high-quality building portfolio on a city scale

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Singapore´s Building Stock

Approaches to a multi-scale documentation and analysis of transformations

Singapore is rejuvenating and transforming her building stock constantly and in comparatively short cycles. The book analyses these transformations of the global city and shows documents, plans and sources dating from the past two centuries.

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This publication discusses the consequences of the rapid changes in Singapore’s built fabric, also with regards to cultural values and to the capacity of ecological structures. Three spatial scales are presented: the territory, the district, and the building.

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Ed. Iris Belle, Uta Hassler, Institut für Denkmalpflege und Bauforschung der ETH Zürich

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With essays by U. Hassler, I. Belle, T. Wang, A. Choudhury, B. Irmler

264 pages, 350 colour illustrations
24 x 31 cm, hardcover

ISBN: 978-3-7774-2540-5