“…These experts, who held middle or upper level management positions at their institutions, repeatedly mentioned the Fort Canning tunnel, Chek Jawa Wetlands, and foreign workers dormitory as "typical" and "indicative of the sorts of conflicts planners in Singapore face." We then conducted a remainder of 43 interviews with various stakeholders involved in each case study, relying on a "critical stakeholder approach" which ensured we included members of the public and private sector in addition to the communities themselves (Aligica, 2006;Billgren and Holmen, 2008;Sovacool, 2010). We chose research interviews as our main method of data collection due to the subjective nature of land use conflicts; issues such as social heritage, esthetics, and biodiversity are difficult to value quantitatively.…”