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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurong_West

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Residents think that Jurong will change in the future with development but now they will cherish their memories

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People feel very close to their neighbourhood and have a lot of memories

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Photos with annotations of their most meaningful place in the neighbourhood

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Photos with annotations of their most meaningful place in the neighbourhood

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Hakiim Afendi,14

Hisfavourite place is his primary school as he met most of his friends there and the school is just beside his current school

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Most meaningful places in Jurong to the interviewees

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Most meaningful places in Jurong to the interviewees

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Some of them said that the playground near the block is their most meaningful place as it they created new friends which they are still in contact with

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Most of the interviewees who live in the neighbourhood have lived for atleast 5 years

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Majority of our respondents are within the age of 14-20

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We interviewed 5 respondents from the neighbourhood

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There are 9 neighbourhoods in Jurong:

Taman Jurong (South)

Bulim and Boon Lay

Taman Jurong (North)

Hong Kah (East)

Hong Kah (West)

Central

Yunnan (South East)

Yunnan (North East)

The entire area West of Pioneer Road North, consisting of the Yunnan (West)

The development of Jurong started in the 1970s when estates such as Boon Lay, Taman Jurong, Bukit Batok, Bukit Gombak, Hong Kah, Teban Gardens and Yuhua were built, mostly due to the resettlement of Hong Kah (present-day Tengah) and surrounding villages. Boon Lay, Taman Jurong and Hong Kah formed Jurong West.

In the 1950s, Jurong West was mainly dominated by swamps with low hills covered by shrubs and a thick jungle. It was developed into an industrial estate in the 1960s, supported by low-cost housing. Amenities such as government dispensaries, a private hospital, creches, hawker centres and banks were built in the 1970s during efforts to develop Singapore economically.

Up to the late 1980s, only part of the Jurong West housing estate had been developed, specifically the area between Boon Lay estate and Jurong East. In the early 1990s, a new section of Pioneer Road North was built to connect the present Jurong West Extension to Upper Jurong Road. This signalled the start of the development of Jurong West Extension. Today, the area is also served by the PIE which was extended to Tuas from Corporation Road, also in the early 1990s.

In 1982, Jurong West New Town started expanding as Jurong West Extension,[1] which saw the realignment of the PIE to make it go through the southern boundary of present-day NTU, while converting the former section into Jurong West Avenue 2 and renaming the original Upper Jurong Road into Jurong West Avenue 4. Pioneer Road was extended North wards from present-day Upper Jurong Road as Pioneer Road North to the new PIE exit, which signalled the start of the development of Jurong West Extension (Nanyang, Jurong West Central and Gek Poh). The N9 estate was the first to be built and the N6 estate was the last, in the early 2000s. The MRT Line was extended from Lakeside to Boon Lay in 1990 and again to Pioneer in 2009.

Though a single neighborhood, Jurong West is divided into 3 GRCs (Chua Chu Kang, Jurong, and West Coast) and 1 SMC (Hong Kah North) and with 3 Town Councils managing different parts of the neighborhood, namely the Jurong Town Council, West Coast Town Council and Chua Chu Kang Town Council.

Nonetheless, though divided into smaller constituencies, the neighborhood is collectively managed by the PAP.

Located next to the Jurong Industrial Estate, managed by JTC, it is common to find foreign workers hanging out in the neighborhood and influx of foreign workers and foreign expatriates in the region has been a concern among the residents in the area.