Singapore’s public housing spaces: Alter–‘native’ spaces in transition

Although the form of public housing adopted by Singapore from the 1950s onwards was not unique at that time, the way spatial practices have developed within the new environment, the so-called Singaporean ‘heartland,’ took on a unique shape – a condition the earlier excerpt terms as ‘native.’ The mass ‘migration’ of the hitherto variously housed migrant population in the 1960s into the rigid framework presented by the modernist new towns presented fertile grounds for social and cultural transformations.