Regulating design in Singapore: A survey of the Government Land Sales (GLS) programme

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 145-164

  Lee, Kah Wee ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; REGULATORY APPROACH; STATE ROLE; SURVEY;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 77049110329     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c08132     Document Type: Article

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