Category: Singapore and South East Asia : 新加坡和东南亚

Some forty-odd years ago, in the early 1970s, when the urban renewal program was in the initial stages in Singapore, there was a four-member team thinking about having a Singapore with several layers of roadworks at various sky levels, so that the city’s as-built-areas could be expended upwards. The team members could imagine another 278 square miles (721 square meters) created some twenty or thirty levels above ground level, making Singapore twice its size. 大约40年前，即1970年代初期，新加坡的城市更新计划尚处于初期阶段，当时有一个四人小组，正在考虑让新加坡在不同的天空层进行几层道路工程，以便城市的建成区可以向上扩展。团队成员可以想象另外278平方英里（721平方米）在地面上高出约20或30层，使新加坡的面积扩大了两倍。 “To support another city space so high above the ground, we need to construct a series of large reinforced concrete footings,” said the Structural Engineer […]