PEDESTRIAN STREETS IN SINGAPORE

A fair amount of literature pertaining to pedestrian streets has been produced but for the most part it is on the American and European deve lopments. There has been surprisingly little published research on ped estrian street development in Asia. The purpose of this paper, therefo re, is to examine pedestrian streets in Asia, using the city-state of Singapore as a case study. Since the mid-1980s, pedestrian streets hav e been adopted as a policy in the conservation and planning of Singapo re's city centre. The resulting pedestrian streets came in many forms, from a single pedestrian-only street to a whole precinct of several s treets.