Public housing and ethnic integration in Singapore

Habitat International

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 293-307

  Sim, Leo Lee ^a   Yu, Shi Ming ^a   Han, Sun Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ethnic integration; Public housing; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HOUSING POLICY; RACIAL SEGREGATION; SOCIAL HOUSING; SOCIAL SEGREGATION;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0038640534     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-3975(02)00050-4     Document Type: Article

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