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Singapore Urban Renewal Authority
In 1974 the Housing and Development Board's Urban
Renewal
Department was made a statutory board and named the Urban
Redevelopment Authority. Responsible for slum clearance
and
comprehensive development of the city's Central Area, the
authority
was to plan, guide, and implement urban renewal. The Urban
Renewal
Authority drew up long-term land-use plans, which it
implemented
through its own development projects as well as the Sale
of Sites
Programme. The latter, a key instrument in the
government's
comprehensive redevelopment plans, represented a
partnership
between the public and private sectors. The public sector
provided
initiative, expertise, and infrastructural services; the
private
sector contributed financial resources and
entrepreneurship to
facilitate the completion of projects. Between 1967 and
1983, some
166 parcels of land were turned into 143 projects for
residential,
office, shopping, hotel, entertainment, and industrial
developments.
Data as of December 1989
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