Abstract The aim of the thesis is to examine equality ,efficiency and legitimacy of public housing policy in Singapore from 1960 to now. The major point of the research is to analyse equality of public housing policy in Singapore. A ruling party at every country operates policys to gain the advantageous position.Therefore, there is a normal condition in politics that a ruling party often fulfills some policy to ingratiate people. Althoug the PAP government obtain people¡¦s surport and enhance its legitimacy by the means of the Upgrading Programe ,the promise of public housing policy and other issues as the elections , it still takes equality and efficiency of public housing policy into consideration. There are five chapters in this thesis. Chapter one is introduction and it illustrated the study motivation ,the study background ,the study goal ,document reversal and research methods. Chapter two is the public polciy theory adopted in this thesis. Chapter three is the backgroud of public housing policy in Singapore. Chapter four is the building of the laws and systems of public housing policy ing Singapore. Chapter five is the operation of public housing policy in Singapore. Chapter six evaluates public housing policy in Singapore. Chapter seven is the concluion.

By 1970, Singapore’s urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the People’s Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regime’s ‘emergency’ programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAP’s far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fire’s symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAP’s new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nation’s progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fire’s role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore.

By 1970, Singapore’s urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the People’s Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regime’s ‘emergency’ programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAP’s far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fire’s symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAP’s new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nation’s progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fire’s role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore.

Cette thèse présente une méthode de navigation autonome d’un véhicule routier robotisé dans un contexte de l’interaction conducteur - véhicule, dans lequel le conducteur humain et le système de navigation autonome coopèrent dans le but d’associer les avantages du contrôle manuel et automatique. La navigation du véhicule est réalisée en parallèle par le conducteur humain et le système de conduite automatique, basée sur la perception de l’environnement. La navigation coopérative est basée sur l’analyse et correction des gestes du conducteur humain par le système intelligent, dans le but d’exécuter une tâche de navigation locale qui concerne le suivie de voie avec évitement d’obstacles. L’algorithme d’interaction humain-véhicule est basé sur des composants de navigation référencée capteurs formés par des contrôleurs d’asservissement visuel (VS) et la méthode d’évitement d’obstacle « Dynamic Window Approach (DWA) » basée sur la grilles d’occupation. Ces méthodes prennent en entrée la perception de l’environnement fournie par des capteurs embarqués comprenant un système monovision et un LIDAR. Dû à des impossibilités techniques/légales, nous n’avons pas pu valider nos méthodes sur notre véhicule robotisé (une Renault Zoé robotisée), ainsi nous avons construit des structures « driver-in-theloop » dans des environnements de simulation Matlab et SCANeRTM Studio. En Matlab, le conducteur humain est modélisé par un algorithme appelé « Human Driver Behaviour controller (HDB) », lequel génère des gestes de conduite dangereux dans la partie manuelle de l’entrée de commande du système coopératif. En SCANeR Studio, la sortie de l’HDB est remplacée par des commandes manuelles générées directement par un conducteur humain dans l’interface utilisateur du simulateur. Des résultats de validation dans les deux environnements de simulation montrent la faisabilité et la performance du système de navigation coopérative par rapport aux tâches de suivie de voie, l’évitement d’obstacles et le maintien d’une distance de sécurité. / This thesis presents an approach of cooperative navigation control pattern for intelligent vehicles in the context of human-vehicle interaction, in which human driver and autonomous servoing system cooperate for the purpose of benefiting from mutual advantages of manual and auto control. The navigation of the vehicle is performed in parallel by the driver and the embedded intelligent system, based on the perception of the environment. The cooperative framework we specify concerns the analysis and correction of the human navigation gestures by the intelligent system for the purpose of performing local navigation tasks of road lane following with obstacle avoidance. The human-vehicle interaction algorithm is based on autonomous servoing components as Visual Servoing (VS) controllers and obstacle avoidance method Dynamic Window Approach (DWA) based on Occupancy Grid, which are supported by the environment perception performed carried out by on-boarded sensors including a monovision camera and a LIDAR sensor. Given the technical/legal impossibility of validating our interaction method on our robotic vehicle (a robotic Renault Zoé), the driver-in-the-loop structures of system are designed for simulative environment of both Matlab and SCANeRTM Studio. In Matlab environment human driver is modeled by a code-based Human Driver Behaviour (HDB) Controller, which generates potential dangerous behaviors on purpose as manual control of the cooperative system. In SCANeR Studio environment the HDB is replaced by real-time manual command (a real human driver) via driving interface of this simulator. Results of simulative validation show the feasibility and performance of the cooperative navigation system with respect to tasks of driving security including road lane following, obstacle avoidance and safe distance maintenance.