A City in Blue and Green: The Singapore Story

ISBN-13: 9789811395963 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 152 str.

Limin Hee; Peter G. Rowe

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction. 

a. Aspects of ‘Blue’ and Green’ 

b. Singaporean Significance of ‘Blue and Green’ 

c. Organization of the Book 

Chapter 2: Early Days. . 

a. Geographic Setting and Control 

b. Transformation and Deforestation 

c. Securing Prosperity d. Interwar Interlude 

e. Post-Colonial Developments 

Chapter 3: Visions of Clean and Green 

a. Onset and Rise of ‘Clean and Green’ 

b. From ‘Garden City’ to City in Nature’ 

c. Metaphorical Perspectives 

d. Singapore’s Changing Metaphoric Landscape

Chapter 4: Water Resources and Independence 

a. Singapore’s Constraints and Opportunities in Water Resources 

b. Singapore’s Taps 

c. Singapore’s Closed Loop System 

d. Stock-Flow Depictions 

e. Sustainability, Dependencies and Vulnerabilities

Chapter 5: Gardens, Parks and Green Reserves 

a. Botanical and Horticultural Gardens 

b. Nature Reserves 

c. The ABC Program 

d. Park and Other Connectors 

e. Themes and Management Considerations 

f. Towards a Biofilic Outcome 

Chapter 6: Ways Forward 

a. Successful Ingredients 

b. Public Participation 

c. Future Challenges 

d. Dealing With Uncertainty 

Appendices. 

a. Sankey Diagram Background Computation 

b. List of Interviews 

Bibliography 

Index.

O autorze

Professor Peter G. Rowe is a Distinguished Service Professor from Harvard University, and was formerly the Dean of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, the Chairman of the Urban Planning and Design Department, and the Director of the Urban Design Programs. Professor Rowe’s research and consulting experience are extensive, diverse and international in scope. He has served as a principal investigator on projects sponsored by a wide range of U.S. government agencies, and has served as an advisor to a number of cities on matters of urban design and planning including Beijing, Guiyang, Guangzhou, Kunming, Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuhan and Wenzhou in China; Incheon in South Korea and Barcelona in Spain. He was also a board member of several prominent cultural and academic institutions, like the Center for Canadian Architecture and the Cities Programme of the London School of Economics, as well as on the board of several companies involved in low-cost housing provision and the use of environmentally sustainable technologies. He is currently a high-level international expert to the Chinese government based at Tsing Hua University. His experience covers cultural interpretation and design, as well as the urban form discourse, issues of economic development, historic conservation, housing provision and resource sustainability. 

Limin Hee is Director of Research at Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a knowledge centre for liveable and sustainable cities, where she has oversight of research strategies, content development and international collaborations. Prior to joining the CLC, she taught at the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore, where she was also a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities, as well as being jointly appointed at the Asia Research Institute. Her research is focused on liveability and sustainability and its agenda for architecture, urbanism and public space. Dr Hee has published widely on cities, including in international refereed journals and architectural reviews, and her recent books include Constructing Singapore Public Space (Springer, 2016) and Future Asian Space (NUS Press, 2012). She obtained her Doctor of Design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Blurb

This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely urbanized circumstances, which can be achieved, along with complementary roles of environmental conservation, ecology, public open-space management and the greening of buildings, together with infrastructural improvements.