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Singapore City Gallery, formerly known as the URA Gallery, [1] is a three-storey visitor centre located in The URA Centre, Singapore that charts Singapore's urban transformation and future plans. It was established in January 1999 [2] and is managed by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It features a large model replica of the Central ...
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States [1]) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. [2] Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighted areas in inner cities in favour of new housing, businesses, and other developments.
Land formerly devoted to highway lanes and exit ramps are often repurposed into wide sidewalks, bike lanes, green space, or sold for urban development. [8] One of the earliest examples of a freeway-to-boulevard conversion was the transformation of the West Side Elevated Highway into an urban boulevard in New York City.
The following towns, neighborhoods, and developments are examples of New Urbanism. Australia. New South Wales Cape ... (TNDs) and New Urban Neighborhoods
For example, a regenerative city reintroduces treated water into the hydrology cycle, sources food from urban and peri-urban producers, captures the nutrients from its sewage and waste to be applied to surrounding agricultural land, reduces its dependence on petroleum products and boosts the deployment of renewable energies particularly from ...
The urban renewal of Sydney is an ongoing land redevelopment process that is creating and reviving new urban centres across Sydney, Australia. [1] Urban renewal refers to the refurbishment of derelict buildings, streets or neighbourhoods and is accompanied with the process of gentrification attributed by changes in land use and ...
Inexpensive street decoration and shade cover, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tactical urbanism, also commonly referred to as guerrilla urbanism, pop-up urbanism, city repair, D.I.Y. urbanism, [1] planning-by-doing, urban acupuncture, and urban prototyping, [2] is a low-cost, temporary change to the built environment, usually in cities, intended to improve local neighbourhoods and city gathering ...
Urban planning in Singapore is the direction of infrastructure development in Singapore. It is done through a three-tiered planning framework, consisting of a long-term plan to plot out Singapore's development over at least 50 years, a Master Plan for the medium term, and short-term plans, the first two of which are prepared by the Urban ...