tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 70 - Urban planning in Singapore

Hãy tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading Sample 70 - Urban planning in Singapore để giúp các bạn biết thêm cấu trúc đề thi như thế nào, rèn luyện kỹ năng giải bài tập và có thêm tư liệu tham khảo chuẩn bị cho kì thi học kì sắp tới đạt điểm tốt hơn. | Urban planning in Singapore British merchants established a trading post in Singapore in the early nineteenth century and for more than a century trading interests dominated. However in 1965 the newly independent island state was cut off from its hinterland and so it set about pursuing a survival strategy. The good international communications it already enjoyed provided a useful base but it was decided that if Singapore was to secure its economic future it must develop its industry. To this end new institutional structures were needed to facilitate develop and control foreign investment. One of the most important of these was the Economic Development Board EDB an arm of government that developed strategies for attracting investment. Thus from the outset the Singaporean government was involved in city promotion. Towards the end of the twentieth century the government realised that due to limits on both the size of the country s workforce and its land area its labour-intensive industries were becoming increasingly uncompetitive. So an economic committee was established which concluded that Singapore should focus on developing as a service centre and seek to attract company headquarters to serve South East Asia and develop tourism banking and offshore activities. The land required for this service-sector orientation had been acquired in the early 1970s when the government realised that it lacked the banking infrastructure for a modern economy. So a new banking and corporate district known as the Golden Shoe was planned incorporating the historic commercial area. This district now houses all the major companies and various government financial agencies. Singapore s current economic strategy is closely linked to land use and development planning. Although it is already a major city the current development plan seeks to ensure Singapore s continued economic growth through restructuring to ensure that the facilities needed by future business are planned now. These .