Zhao Wei, Liang Qianqian, Niu Shaofei, Wang Maolin

Keywords： Integrated Community Hub; Community Service Facility; Community Centre; Urban Community Renewal; Transit-oriented Development（ TOD）; Singapore

Abstract：

In the context of urban intensification development, integrated community hubs have become a new carrier for providing community service facilities, but they face various issues in terms of planning, implementation, and management. Taking Singapore’s integrated community hubs as the research object, this paper systematically examines their conceptual connotations, driving mechanisms, and spatial evolution. It explores their planning and design characteristics from three levels: planning and spatial structure, coordinated functional configuration patterns, and diverse spatial design strategies. The paper reveals that the formation and evolution of Singapore’s integrated community hubs stem from the planning evolution of community service facilities at different levels. Under the combined influence of TOD and population service scale factors, community service facilities tend to develop in an integrated and compact manner. Based on in-depth analysis of the spatial planning characteristics of Singapore’s integrated community hubs, this paper extracts targeted insights, including the systematic construction of integrated community hubs’ spatial levels and structures, the updating and compatibility of land classifications and setting conditions and incentives, the establishment of coordinated layouts for public service and commercial functions, and the enhancement of government-led and diverse participation sustainable operation mechanisms.

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