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A Study on the Upgrading Program of HDB in Singapore (싱가포르 주택개발청(HDB)의 업그레이딩 프로그램에 관한 연구)

  • 김주현;박선경;하재명;이재윤
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.97-105
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    • 2004
  • This research is about Apartment Remodeling Upgrading Programme by Singapore Housing Development Board(HDB). For this study, we visited HDB and made field survey of the projects. There are basically three types of upgrading, namely, Precinct Upgrading, Apartment Block Upgrading and Flat Upgrading. Precint Upgrading refers the upgrading of services and facilities of the precinct. It involves the extention of open space, car-park, commercial space and additional covered linkways. These afford the residents greater convenience and comfort and generally enhance the environment of the community. Apartment Upgrading refers the upgrading of the block facade, improvements to the elevator, lift lobbies, letter boxes, trash chute and rain chute. The upgrading improves the quality of life of the residents. Flat Upgrading Involves the addition of space which may be in the form of a new Utility-room, replacement of old services, piping and equipment within an apartment unit. These provide the residents with a bigger and more comfortable living space.

A Study on Diversification of Open Space and Formation of Neighborhood at the Singapore Public Housing in 1950s (1950년대 싱가포르 공공주택에서 오픈 스페이스의 다양화와 근린의 형성에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Don-Son;Tak, Chung Seok
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2015
  • This study examines the Singapore public housing supplied by Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in the 1950s. Focused on the Princess Elizabeth estate and Princess estate of Queenstown, this study surveys their construction backgrounds, site plans, unit plans, architectural designs and meanings. The Princess Elizabeth estate was the model estate for workmen's flats. This estate showed mixed blocks of flats arranged around a large quadrangled open space for children. The Princess estate was a neighborhood of Queenstown, Singapore's the first new town. At this Estate, there were some new architectural occurrences departing from the Tiong Bahru Estate. Those are the appearance of high-rise typology, and the increased specificity in the functions of open spaces. Thus the open space became to get hierarchy, and divided an estate to small neighborhood units. For the SIT, open space is synonymous with the improvement of urban environment. Through the purposeful creation of open space, the SIT intended to solve the problem of sanitation and to make a neighborhood unit which can be pleasant place for regional community.

A Comparative Study on the Business and Financial Structure of Public Housing Agencies in Asia: Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong (아시아 공공주택기관의 사업특성 및 재무현황 비교 연구 : 한국, 일본, 싱가포르, 홍콩을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Yong-Tai;Park, Shin-Young;Cho, Seung-Youn
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.529-538
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    • 2011
  • Recently, one of the critical issues in Korea is the huge debt and future role of Korea Land and Housing Corporation. In this regards, the purpose of this study is to get implications from other public housing agencies in Asian countries such as UR of Japan, HDB of Singapore and HA of Hongkong. The changes of housing policy since 1960s, business and financial structure of housing agencies in each nation are investigated and compared. As a result, some policy directions can be proposed as follows : review of current mass housing program, relaxing qualifications for public rental housing, promotion of urban renewal projects, reinforcing cooperation with private sector and local governments, more government's support to LH's financing and loss from businesses for public interests and re-evaluation of LH's debt. The contribution of this study is that suggestions to improve housing policy and to alleviate financial problem of LH are based on the actual conditions of public housing agencies in Asian countries where the housing policy implementation system is similar to Korea, not on the theoretical basis.

A Study on Assimilation and Transplantation of Public Housing at the Tiong Bahru Estate in Singapore from the 1930s to the 1950s (1930년대에서 1950년대까지 싱가포르 티옹 바루 단지에서 공공주택의 동화와 이식에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Don-Son;Tak, Chung Seok
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.27-37
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    • 2014
  • Early 20th century Singapore was faced with the problem of overcrowding. The attendant problems of a rapid increase in population density, namely the lack of proper housing and sanitation, resulted in the issue of an appropriate residential environment emerging as an important task in urban planning. It was necessary to construct housing estates in order to solve this issue. At that time, the British colonial government attempted to transplant modern technology into the construction process of a residential complex system. However, Singapore's climate and traditional lifestyle made it impossible to apply the British modern system in a straightforward manner, and in the process, a number of transformations emerged. With a specific focus on the Tiong Bahru estate, one of Singapore's representative public housing projects, from the 1930s through the 1950s, this study intends to look at the way in which such residential estates were assimilated into local surroundings, and the effect of the transplantation of British concepts of modern housing theory. Therefore, the study is divided into an examination of the estate both before and after the turning point of World War II. This study confirms that the difference between the pre-war and post-war planning strategies for the Tiong Bahru estate were made according to the concept of 'open space.'