After visiting the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore, i found out that the urban planning of Singapore are not accidental but rather, they are intensively being reviewed to see whether its feasible in the years to come. Take the Concept Plan for example, they plan it for a period of like more than 10 years. However, at every 5 years interval, they would review the plan again to improve on the plan so that it really implies to the current situation in Singapore to keep it updated.

Certainly, much effort has been put in to contribute to what Singapore has become now and these attributes to those Urban Planners effort to make full use of Singapore's limited amount of land. In my opinion, these Urban Planners are very far-sightly as they have already seen the shortage of land even 30 years ago and reclaimed the piece of land in Marina Bay. Even though that piece of land has not been used for over 30 years, however it has now becomed an important piece of land to expand the financial district from Shenton Way to Marina.

As more and more developments are on their way, URA is also constantly trying to develop Singapore into a City in the Garden to reduce the use of resources as being a Garden city does help to cool down buildings and thus reducing the amount of electricity needed to cool down a building.

Therefore, i feel that URA should be appreciated for the contributions that they have done to Urban Planning in Singapore and i definitely look forward to see the even more intensive planning that they planners have done for the Urban Planning in Shanghai!

Jun Wen