koksheng shares his recent field trip to Tiong Bahru estate, as part of a university module titled “Changing Landscapes of Singapore”. His detailed account almost makes you feel like you were on the field trip yourself!
I am taking this module, Changing Landscapes of Singapore, and am glad to be able to go for this field trip which allows us to explore Tiong Bahru Estate which we went yesterday morning. Tiong in chinese means cemetery, Bahru in malay is new. Before the 1930s, it was filled with burial grounds, and shacks. It soon also became the place for spillovers of residents from Chinatown as pressure for land increases over time.Part of this estate is the oldest public housing estate in Singapore built in the 1930s. This area is bordered by Tiong Bahru Road to the north and east, Tiong Poh Road in the South and Yiong Siak Street to the West. It consists of pre-war and post war flats built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT), the predecessor of the Housing and Development Board. The pre-war flats are privatized and are no longer bounded by HDB. Tiong Bahru Estate has gone through various phases of change since it was first built in 1938.
Explore Tiong Bahru here.
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