Even if they don’t know his name, most of Singapore’s 6mn inhabitants have reason to be grateful to Liu Thai Ker.
In the eyes of many Liu, who died this month aged 87, was the “architect of modern Singapore”, the man who designed the state-subsidised housing that has underpinned the growth of the former British colony in its six decades of independence.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong praised Liu as the “father of urban planning” in the city-state, while President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said he “helped make Singapore a liveable city in the tropics”.
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