USE OF HIGH-RISE GREEN OPEN SPACES IN PUBLIC HOUSING
TOH SIHUI ANSLEY
TOH SIHUI ANSLEY
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This paper investigates the usage patterns and perception of residents staying in public housing estates with sky gardens. With increasing pressure on land resources, the need to maximise land usage becomes inherently vital. One method Singapore has adopted is by taking neighbourhood parks up ‘into the sky’, creating a new breed of sky gardens.
Analysis was conducted using a four-tiered approach, namely observations, surveys, short informal interviews and statistical methods. Pinnacle@Duxton and Central Horizon were identified as iconic developments with sky gardens, thus chosen as the two study sites.
The quantitative research highlights the perception of residents on the respective factors influencing their usage. It has been identified that residents were generally receptive towards the concept of sky gardens and do frequent their estate’ green spaces. Factor analysis extracted various factors for each study site, including ‘Urban Environment Aspects’, ‘Physical Features and Social Function’ and ‘Environmental Features’. Subsequently, through the use of ANOVA, it reveals that there was a difference in the perception of high-rise green spaces among the various user groups only in Pinnacle@Duxton.
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Real Estate, Sim Loo Lee, 2011/2012 RE
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2012-05-25
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