i don't know why i'm replying to choon's post about singapore building up a new city one month after, but this suddenly occured to me. a friend of mine does architecture here and i was reading his books and came across this article on singapore, which described the urban planning as tabula rasa. and there is a lot involved in how singapore chose to built certain complexes, ugly as they may seem; people's park is a good example.
yeah that was random.
a lot of the nyps stuff was actually quite true...