WSJ Blog, 21 Mar 2012Public parks have always been a microcosm of life in Singapore’s oldest government-housing estates; where the elderly would treat their feet to a barefoot walk on a “reflexology” pebble path, where couples would idly pass time and where children and their minders would play for hours on colorful, kitschy rocking horses or in sandboxes.
Even when the government Housing Development Board was first tasked to build affordable housing in the 1960s–when Singapore was still crowded with squatter settlements–the body was equally focused on creating little pockets of fun for the 80% or so of the population who lived in these government-planned estates. Full story
