March 10, 2009 | Broadcast News

It probably isn’t the first time that le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin has elicited some visual association with Singapore’s Housing Development Board (HDB) New Towns; what with towering residential masses floating above acres of public and green space. Of course, the HDB-way proved an effective remedy to the cramped, disorderly conditions of Singapore; and provided the governing powers with some way of policing the population.

Interestingly, ArchDaily.com’s Marco Castroni provides some comparative analysis between slums and the wave of post-WWII urban renewal that includes Haussmann’s Paris, le Corbusier’s Plan Voisin, and the borgata of Rome in the first of a two part analysis entitled Learning from the slums

via ArchDaily.com

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JJ is the co-founder of 5ft Creatives and is presently enrolled as a graduate student at the Yale School of Architecture.