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Exhibition suggests ways compact cities can be designed

Xinhua, December 18, 2015 Adjust font size:

An exhibition named "1,000 Singapores: Eight Points of Compact City" returned to Singapore on Thursday after its debut in Paris in June 2015.

With the world population expected to swell to 9.6 billion by 2050, the world will become very crowded by then. "1,000 Singapores" looks into eight core principles of Density, Territories, Nature, Infrastructure, Urban Models, Governance, Economics and Architecture to suggest ways compact cities can be designed.

The eight points of the compact city are presented through a 36-meter circular array of 300 diagrams, drawings and photographs as well as eight large-scale models.

The exhibition draws upon the planning strategies of both Singapore and Paris for sustainable urbanism, land intensification and business expansion.

Visitors will learn about how synergies among urban-planning techniques, investments in human capital and infrastructural improvement are crucial to designing compact cities of the future.

Commissioned by the DesignSingapore Council, the exhibition was officiated by Singapore's Minister of State for Communications and Information, and Health Chee Hong Tat on Thursday evening.

Chee said the exhibition makes one think of what affects a city's liveability, according to Channel NewsAsia's report.

Chee cited Housing and Development Board (HDB)'s upcoming project at Kampung Admiralty as an example of having different parties working together and using design make towns elder-friendly.

"Through this exhibition, we hope to offer a glimpse of how we could address some of these urban planning and design issues to make compact cities more liveable, greener and more energy-efficient." said Jeffrey Ho, commissioner of the exhibition and Executive Director of DesignSingapore Council.

The exhibition will be held till Jan. 28 next year, and three curators of the exhibition will discuss issues on population, urbanism and evolving of future cities on a public forum. Enditem