Publications
The distributional impacts of transportation networks in China
Lin MA and Tang YANG
MA, Lin and YANG, Tang. The distributional impacts of transportation networks in China. (2023). 1-82.
View PaperPromoting ethnic diversity in public housing: Singapore and England compared
Edward TI and Alvin W. L. SEE
TI, Seng Wei, Edward and SEE, Alvin W. L.. Promoting ethnic diversity in public housing: Singapore and England compared. (2023). Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law.
View PaperCompensation Thresholds for Collective Sales: Singapore & Australia Compared
Edward TI
In an increasing number of jurisdictions (including Singapore and three states in Australia), strata legislation also enables the strata scheme to be terminated and sold for redevelopment where the requisite majority, as opposed to an unanimity of subsidiary proprietors’ consent to the sale. Strata law imposes compensation thresholds that must minimally be paid to dissenting owners. In Singapore, the rule is that no minority owner should suffer a ‘financial loss,’ while in NSW and Western Australia (WA), this amount is pegged to what the owner would theoretically have obtained had the unit been acquired compulsorily by the state. In this article, I compare strata law in Singapore, NSW, and WA in relation to compensation thresholds and explain why the Australian market value standard should also be adequate to compensate unit owners in Singapore.
Ti, Edward Seng Wei. "Compensation Thresholds for Collective Sales: Singapore & Australia Compared." Asian Journal of Comparative Law 18, no. 3 (2023): 345-61. doi:10.1017/asjcl.2023.21.
View PaperYoung Women in Cities: Urbanization and Gender-biased Migration
Yumi KOH, Li JING, Yifan WU, Junjian YI, and Hanzhe ZHANG
Koh, Yumi and Li, Jing and Wu, Yifan and Yi, Junjian and Zhang, Hanzhe, Young Women in Cities: Urbanization and Gender-biased Migration (January 4, 2024).
View PaperCities, settlements and key infrastructure
David DODMAN, Bronwyn HAYWARD, Mark PELLING, Vanesa CASTAN BROTO, Winston T. L. CHOW, et al.
In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated with climate change has increased (high confidence1 ). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 billion people, the majority of the world’s population. Urbanisation processes generate vulnerability and exposure which combine with climate change hazards to drive urban risk and impacts (high confidence). Globally, the most rapid growth in urban vulnerability and exposure has been in cities and settlements where adaptive capacity is limited, especially in unplanned and informal settlements in low- and middle-income nations and in smaller and medium-sized urban centres (high confidence). Between 2015 and 2020, urban populations globally grew by more than 397 million people, with more than 90% of this growth taking place in less developed regions.
DODMAN, David; HAYWARD, Bronwyn; PELLING, Mark; CASTAN BROTO, Vanesa; CHOW, Winston T. L.; and et al.. Cities, settlements and key infrastructure. (2022). Climate Change 2022: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. 1, 907-1040.
View PaperInsourcing the smart city: Assembling an ideo-technical ecosystem of talent, skills, and civic-mindedness in Singapore
Orlando WOODS, Tim BUNNELL, and Lily KONG
This article examines an alternative model of smart city formation, one based on the principle of insourcing technical competencies and capabilities to those responsible for city governance. This model counters the logic of technological outsourcing upon which many assumptions and critiques of the smart city rest, and thus reveals ways in which a more generative discourse can be forged. Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews with senior stakeholders from public and private sector organizations, we develop a case study of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative. Through coordinated efforts to reorganize the public sector’s technological functions, develop nation-wide skills upgrading programs, and repatriate overseas tech talent, the government strives to assemble an ideo-technical ecosystem of talent, skills, and civic-mindedness in Singapore. This is an ecosystem designed to establish the public sector as the driver of urban innovation, and thus maximize the benefits of “civic tech”.
WOODS, Orlando; BUNNELL, Tim; and Kong, Lily. Insourcing the smart city: Assembling an ideo-technical ecosystem of talent, skills, and civic-mindedness in Singapore. (2023). Urban Geography. 1-20.
View PaperCities in a pandemic: Evidence from China
Badi H. BALTAGI, Ying DENG, Li JING, and Zhenlin YANG
Baltagi, B. H., Deng, Y., Li, J., & Yang, Z. (2023). Cities in a pandemic: Evidence from China. Journal of Regional Science, 63, 379–408. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12626
View PaperCompensating and taxing land regulations
Edward TI
TI, Seng Wei, Edward. Compensating and taxing land regulations. (2023). Adelaide Law Review. 44, (1), 135-162.
View PaperStrata plan cancellations in Australasia: A comparative analysis of nine jurisdictions
Edward TI
TI, Seng Wei, Edward. Strata plan cancellations in Australasia: A comparative analysis of nine jurisdictions. (2022). Monash University Law Review. 48, (1), 1-35.
View PaperBig houses on a small island: legislating Singapore’s ‘good class’ bungalows
Edward TI
Land reform in post-independent Singapore was led by compulsory purchase predominantly in the 1960s–70s and resulted in numerous kampungs or villages being demolished. With efficient assembly of land, high-rise public flats were built to accommodate the country’s burgeoning population. Today, 95 per cent of residents reside in high-rise dwellings and Singapore is the 3rd most densely populated country globally. Remarkably, planning regulations protect a housing typology known as ‘good class bungalows’ (GCBs). Though housing less than 0.2 per cent of Singapore households, GCBs collectively take up 7 per cent of the available land for housing. Numbering less than three thousand, GCBs have statutorily required large minimum lot sizes and are situated in Singapore’s choiciest residential enclaves. Development of GCB land to more intensive use is strictly prohibited. In this article, I examine the legal policies and socioeconomic rationale for maintaining this uniquely Singaporean institution, concluding that there are indeed cogent justifications for its existence.
TI, Seng Wei, Edward. Big houses on a small island: legislating Singapore’s ‘good class’ bungalows. (2022). International Journal of Housing Policy. 1-17.
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