ABSTRACT
Government agencies would dispense equal accommodations to each inhabitant of a town, district, or entire city, and the resulting uniformity would constitute social justice. From the detached house through the attached row house, townhouse, crescent, or atrium house to the urban tenement, the apartment block, and finally the high-rise tower, habitation in the city has responded to increasing demands for concentration. Two economically diverse markets have influenced both the location and the design of residential towers: mass public housing and market-sensitive, "luxury" housing. The images for mass public housing were supplied in the 1920s and 1930s from the realm of architectural theory: the annals of CIAM; Le Corbusier's visions of a Ville Radieuse and a Cite de Trois Milles; Ludwig Hilberseimer's Hochhausstadt project; and other grand urban schemes. Since the founding of the state of Singapore, the government has made a priority of providing housing for its growing population.
