Environmental and Urban Studies

IPS works with state, market, and civil society sectors, in research, policy discussions, reviews and evaluation. Its interests include the study of urban and environmental planning, urban land-use, housing and environmental policy assessment, local administration in the form of town councils, and civic participation and initiatives, including heritage conservation and waste recycling.

 

Singapore’s environmental track record and the success of its urban infrastructural development have provided great impetus for both the sharing of its experiences through research, as well as in looking ahead to developmental challenges in a globalising world. IPS communicates its findings in these areas through publications and discussions, and organises, among other events, major regional and international conferences including the Conference on the Environment and the City, as well as the World Conference on Model Cities. 

 

STAFF

Ooi Giok Ling

Tommy Koh

 

KEY PROJECTS/PUBLICATIONS

Survey of Lifestyles in Singapore, 2002
 

Urban Sustainable Development Index, 2002
 

The Developmental State and Public Spaces in Singapore

Ooi, G.L. & L.M. Hee, in International Development Planning Review, 24(4), 2002

Model Cities – Urban Best Practices

Ooi, G.L. ed. Singapore: Urban Redevelopment Authority & IPS, (two volumes), 2000

Public Policy and Environmental Management Research Project, 2000

Project on the Social Meaning of Public Spaces in Singapore, 2000

World Conference on Model Cities, 1999

Town Councils in Singapore: Self-determination for Public Housing Estates

Ooi, G.L., IPS Occasional Paper No. 4. Singapore:IPS, 1990

City and the State – Singapore’s Built Environment Revisited

Ooi, G.L. & K. Kwok, eds. Singapore: IPS & Oxford University Press, 1997
 

Five Years after Rio: Some Personal Reflections

Tommy T B Koh in United Nations Chronicle, Vol XXXIV, No. 2, 1997

A Process of Negotiation

Tommy T B Koh in United Nations Chronicle, Vol XXXIV, No. 2, 1997

Environment and the City – Sharing Singapore’s Experience and Future Challenges

Ooi, G.L. ed. Singapore: IPS Times Academic Press for IPS, 1995
 

Asians, Too, Want Good Environment

Tommy T B Koh in International Herald Tribune, 1 February 1994

Management of Ethnic Relations in the Public Housing Estates in Singapore

Ooi, G.L., S. Siddique & K.C Soh. Singapore: Times Academic Press for IPS, 1993

The Road To and From Rio

Tommy T B Koh in TRENDS, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, No. 23, July 1992

 

FUTURE RESEARCH

Future research focus will be on urban sustainable development indicators as well as the effort to put our findings on urban best practices on the world wide web. We also intend to engage with policy -making agencies like the Urban Redevelopment Authority and the National Environment Agency, as well as the corporate sector, to undertake more urban development and environmental research work.