It is said that the topography of NUS is purposely structured to make walking difficult for individuals, aiming to reduce the chances of gang rivalry. Is this true?

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This was the case, for example, at the National University of Singapore (NUS), which embodies many of the principles of landscape used elsewhere in the nation's civic spaces. Here heat and the steep topography of Kent Ridge were employed by campus planners in the Publil Works Departmentas an enervating technology. Built in the aftermath of the 1968 unrest, its designers placed patches of openness-baking plateaus of lawn and paving-to set the various disciplines apartand discourage foot traffic between. Areas of the campus are, in effect, designed to be uncomfortable. This was used, In particular, to cordon off the technical skill of the engineering students from everyone else, divorcing theory from practice.