I want to write a quick blogpost about the Singapore skyline. I’m not an architect, or architecture student, or even any sort of long-term observer or student or hobbyist-appreciator of buildings. I’m just a guy who lives in an island-city-state with some thoughts and observations about the place we live in. 1. General Post Office […]
/u/doc-tom 90 percent of Singaporeans do not own their homes. We have a 90 percent home ownership rate which means that 90 percent of the residential units are owner-occupied, not 90 percent of Singaporeans own homes. The technical definition of home ownership rate is the percentage of homes that are owner-occupied, not the percentage of […]
I have lately felt a pressing need to understand Singapore’s road map. As in, literally, the map of our roads. Our expressways. I want to know what is where in our country, and I want to know it fairly well. Anybody who knows me personally knows that my understanding of Singaporean topography is horrible. My […]