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Asia's challenges in managing its cities

These include reactive urban planning, uncontrolled urban sprawl and poor governance, say planning specialists

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Published Fri, Nov 6, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    Singapore

    THE architect of modern Singapore has a number of bugbears about urban planning and he wants them off his chest.

    For starters, Liu Thai-Ker believes that politicians in the rapidly urbanising Asia of today aren't giving city planning the scientific precision it deserves.

    Urban planning

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