Choosing Density, Adapting Density



Friday, 14. September 2012 | 8:30 Uhr

Speaker

Lai Choo Malone-Lee

Organisation

Staatliche Universität Singapur

Reporting

Lai Choo Malone-Lee is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities at the National University of Singapore and deals with population density in the city state of Singapore – one of the most densely populated places on earth. There, the issue is not densified building but improving the quality of life of the over five million people who share barely 700 km2. They suffer from the tightest housing conditions, permanent traffic jams and crowded buses and subways. Singapore is currently conducting intensive research on how high-density areas can be made more livable. The population is closely involved. Malone-Lee and her team are investigating where social life takes place, where people go shopping, where social contacts are cultivated. This is because the quality of life is not least also an economic success factor. Queries are made on the residents’ requirements regarding housing, green spaces and transportation systems. What would be important for them to make them feel comfortable? Malone-Lee hopes that the study’s findings will lead to appropriate deci-sions that are incorporated in the city’s development.

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