New experiments were taking place in Singapore from the early 1960s onwards, as pedagogies and practices of urban design were being circulated among global experts and multiple stakeholders. New attitudes towards modernisation and urban renewal were developed then. Post-war humanist ideals of ‘social’ Brutalist architecture and revisionist attitudes towards high modernism and the overdevelopment of automobile infrastructure coursed through Singapore’s Golden Mile Complex (GMC). This was a project that attempted to address the problems of increased density and economic imperatives in the urban realm. This article focuses on the GMC as a contested site and as a built megastructure, in an effort to chart a new relationship between architecture, urban design, and the missed opportunity to develop a pedestrianised city. Designed by William S.W. Lim and the Design Partnership (DP), the GMC was an experiment in pedestrianised urbanism that differed from what had emerged in the original centres of invention and intellectual discourse in Singapore. Partly coinciding with the GMC’s design conception and construction, the period between 1962 and 1973 raised warnings against the ‘bulldozer addicts’ of urban renewal. It also witnessed the socially levelling roles of shopping, alternative models of urban circulation, and the emergence of extra-large architectural forms. This was also a short period of democratic debate and experimentation with mixed-use typologies and strata-title private ownership in the increased commercialisation of the city, fuelled by Singapore’s ambition to become a global city. The need to attract global capital and private consumerist functions made polarising demands on the development around the GMC. Alongside its aggressive urban renewal, Singapore was also keen to gain social legitimacy through its public housing programmes. The circulation of globally relevant pedagogies in urban design and planning formed the backdrop to an incomplete conception and realisation of an avant-garde megastructure specific to an Asian discourse of urban densification.

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一个不完整的巨型建筑：黄金地带、全球规划教育和步行城市

从 1960 年代初开始，新的实验在新加坡进行，因为城市设计的教学法和实践在全球专家和多个利益相关者之间传播。当时形成了对现代化和城市更新的新态度。战后“社会”野兽派建筑的人文主义理想以及对高度现代主义和汽车基础设施过度开发的修正主义态度贯穿新加坡的黄金地带 (GMC)。这是一个试图解决城市领域密度增加和经济需求增加的问题的项目。本文将 GMC 作为一个有争议的地点和一个建成的巨型结构，以试图描绘建筑、城市设计和错失的步行城市发展机会之间的新关系。由威廉 SW 设计 Lim 和设计伙伴关系 (DP)，GMC 是步行城市化的实验，不同于新加坡最初的发明和知识讨论中心。1962 年至 1973 年期间，部分地与 GMC 的设计概念和建设相吻合，这对城市更新的“推土机成瘾者”提出了警告。它还见证了购物的社会平衡作用、城市流通的替代模式以及超大型建筑形式的出现。这也是在新加坡成为全球城市的雄心的推动下，随着城市商业化程度的提高，混合用途类型学和分层所有权私有制的民主辩论和试验的短暂时期。吸引全球资本和私人消费功能的需要对围绕 GMC 的发展提出了两极分化的要求。除了积极的城市更新，新加坡还热衷于通过其公共住房计划获得社会合法性。城市设计和规划中与全球相关的教学法的流通形成了一个不完整的概念和实现的背景，即特定于亚洲城市密集化话语的前卫巨型建筑。