Singapore challenges city planners to think small

AFP
VENICE, Italy — Urban planners bracing for the influx of ever more millions into finite territories should look to Singapore as a "model compact city," says architect Khoo Peng Beng.
Khoo, lead curator of Singapore's pavilion at the Venice architectural Biennale, opens his argument with some startling figures to demonstrate the compactness of the tiny island state off the Malaysian peninsula.
It is planning for a maximum population of 6.5 million in 20 years, which is 1,000th of the current world total of 6.5 billion. Full story

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