Postwar & Welfare-Modernist (1945–1975)

Singapore Concept Plan

1971/1991 · Singapore · Southeast Asia · Regional & polycentric planning · Planned by URA, Singapore
The original 1971 Ring Concept Plan diagram by Singapore's URA, showing the ring of high-density satellite new towns encircling the central water catchment, the Jurong–Changi development belt, and the
The original 1971 Ring Concept Plan diagram by Singapore's URA, showing the ring of high-density satellite new towns encircling the central water catchment, the Jurong–Changi development belt, and the · copyrighted

Core idea

Compact city, new towns, MRT backbone

Why it matters

Globally emulated integrated land-use/transport planning

Description

Singapore's Concept Plan (1971, revised 1991) set a long-range structure for the island city-state: new towns strung along rail corridors around a central catchment, a ring of housing, integrated transit, and reserved land for industry, ports, and greenery, under strong state direction.

Significance

Singapore's Concept Plan underpins the world's most comprehensively planned city-state, fusing nation-building, welfare housing, and developmental discipline. It is the leading example of long-range, state-led strategic planning.

What shaped it

Plans it influenced

Sources

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