Urbanization IS” NOT INEVITABLE”
Loss is not easy, perhaps when we see it coming, such as party store Khiam Teck’s closing due to a steep decline in users. It may cause the most intense emotions, like anger.
As a result, an destroying of history is frequently, perhaps ineptly, associated with the composite that is gentrification.  ,
But development is” just a name” used to describe the process “whereby stuff change because of many factors, like economic, social, cultural factors”, said history professional Dr Yeo Kang Shua.  ,
These swings affect the” cultural capital of occupants”, pushing specific demographics out of an area and changing a site’s figure. And it happens” all the time”.
Dr. Yeo, an equate professor of architecture history, principle, and censure at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, noted that development just becomes difficult when it occurs very quickly, for example, as a result of rising rents.
To that end, Dr Tan Shin Bin, assistant professor at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, noted that while redevelopment does increase demand for housing in the area, and by extension, housing sales and/or rental rates, development is” not unavoidable”.
She cited measures like intended housing subsidies to stop “large-scale displacement of existing lower-income residents” and similar subsidies for some limited tenants, though the latter was” with the expectation that “keeping the charm” will increase footfall to the neighborhood and thus enhance the overall financial vibrancy of the area.”