Clean and Disciplined: The Garden City in Singapore

The chapter discusses the idea of the 'garden city' as applied in the politics of urban design in republican Singapore, primarily in the 1960s and 1970s. It considers how the term became an element of political language that emphasised an aspiration for post-colonial modernisation. This 'garden city' encompassed both physical alterations to the city-state of Singapore, and the engineering of a new civic involvement in the physical environment among Singaporeans.