DOES THE DISPARITY IN RESIDENTIAL ACCESSIBILITY TO LOCAL AMENITIES DIFFER BETWEEN MATURE AND NON-MATURE TOWNS? (A SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE)
TAN YAN MEI SANDRA
TAN YAN MEI SANDRA
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Housing amenities are essential in supporting community living within estates and
provides urban dwellers with access to daily necessities or services. This research paper
posits that there is a variation in residents’ accessibility to local amenities across space
due to different generations of town planning. Singapore’s vision for a compact and carlite
community has resulted in a shift towards centralised town planning, where the town
centres in non-mature estates have become the “one-stop destination” to serve the
needs of residents. Changes in town planning over the years, have resulted in inherent
spatial and physical differences between mature and non-mature estates.
This study was conducted with the objective of investigating if the extent of accessibility
differs between mature and non-mature towns and to ascertain reasons that will account
for this inter-town accessibility differences. The Hedonic Pricing Model was adopted to
isolate the attribute of accessibility and provide easy comparison across HDB towns for
this study.
Through this study, house prices were found to be statistically negatively correlated with
distance from town centre in both models. More importantly, it was determined that
residents in mature towns did not experience as large a disparity in accessibility to
amenities across space compared to non-mature towns. Qualitative spatial analysis and
observations also reveal that amenities in mature towns are found to be more dispersed
and in greater density as opposed to a concentration of amenities mostly found in the
town centre of non-mature towns.
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Real Estate, RE, Fu Yuming, 2017/2018 RE
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2018-06-04
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