Singapore Heritage Archive
A reference archive on the URA-gazetted historic districts that shaped Singapore's built environment — from Chinatown's five-footway shophouses to Kampong Glam's Malay quarter and Little India's Tamil streetscape.
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In-depth · Chinatown
Covering roughly 30 hectares across Kreta Ayer, Tanjong Pagar and Bukit Pasoh sub-districts, Singapore's Chinatown conservation area holds over 1,800 pre-war shophouses. The URA's 1989 gazette designation changed what was at the time a threatened quarter into one of the most documented built-heritage zones in Southeast Asia.
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Three districts, three distinct histories — each gazetted under the URA's Conservation Master Plan with its own set of guidelines governing facades, materials and permitted uses.
Conservation Area
An account of the gazetted Chinatown conservation zone — its sub-districts, shophouse typologies, facade restoration rules and the regulatory framework that governs changes to buildings within its boundaries.
Conservation Area
From the Istana Kampong Glam to the Arab Street textile precinct, this district's conservation status under URA preserves both the physical fabric of its Malay and Arab mercantile heritage and the cultural identity attached to it.
Conservation Area
Little India's conservation zone stretches across Serangoon Road and its tributary streets, preserving a density of pre-war terrace houses, shopfronts and religious buildings that remain largely unaltered in scale and material character.
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