
The Singapore Chronicles: Divergent Models
Part 8 – Singapore, Barcelona, Vancouver
By Erick VillagomezThe city, we’re often told, is a model—something to be learned from, exported, improved. But what happens when models conflict? What if the city itself resists being modelled? Throughout the Chronicles series so far, we’ve walked the ordered streets of Singapore’s HDB towns, cycled through Barcelona’s evolving housing policies, and revisited Vancouver’s once-promising but increasingly faltering approach to city-making. In this final reflection, we bring these trajectories into the... Read more