Centenary paper: Urban planning in Southeast Asia: Perspective from Singapore

Town Planning Review

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 145-167

  Yuen, Belinda ^a  

^a Singapore Institute of Planners   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GLOBALIZATION; MODERNITY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 79951883877     PISSN: 00410020     EISSN: 1478341X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/tpr.2011.12     Document Type: Article

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