Written by Shiny Varghese |Updated: November 12, 2019 8:16:49 am
Architect Tay Kheng Soon on nurturing small businesses and visions for a green economy
He was in Kollam, Kerala, as a keynote speaker at the National Conference of the Institute of Urban Designers India (IUDI) last month.
Architect-urban thinker Tay Kheng Soon, 79, was ahead of his time when he designed the People’s Park Complex in Chinatown, Singapore, in the late ’60s. He saw that the once trading port, which grew into an independent country, had ambitions of turning its slums into urban strongholds and that it would wipe out small businesses and change the way the city interacted with its people. One of the first generation locally-trained architects, Singapore-based Kheng Soon coined the term ‘rubanisation’, which is a “rethinking of the city and the countryside as one space”, where integrated lifestyles make room for better environmental and ethical choices. He was in Kollam, Kerala, as a keynote speaker at the National Conference of the Institute of Urban Designers India (IUDI) last month. In a conversation, he discusses the need to empower rural economies and turning seawater into fuel.
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