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It's All Work, All Play in Singapore If Urban Plan Gets Go Ahead

  • Developers to be encouraged to convert offices to housing
  • Public has until the end of the month to comment on draft plan
Commercial buildings in the central business district of SingaporePhotographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
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Living where you work and play may not seem like the ideal balance in terms of escaping the grind, but it’s a key plank of Singapore’s vision for its central business district.

Like many cities’ financial centers, Singapore’s is bustling by day and close to deserted during a weekend. The government hopes to change that and laid out details of how it aims to go about it in an urban draft plan released last month.