A City in Blue and Green
The Singapore Story
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Highlights a holistic and integrated approach in studying Singapore’s practice in environmental management, urban planning and nation-building strategies Articulates the principles and lessons learnt from Singapore’s experience which could be a useful model for city leaders and urban planners to emulate Covers the art of Singapore’s urban governance in developing a sustainable and liveable blue-green city with well grounded scientific facts on the technicalities behind its success
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Peter G. Rowe
Themen in »A City in Blue and Green«
Garden city City in nature Deforestation Singapore’s changing landscape Clean and green Post-colonial developments Singapore’s constraints Singapore’s closed loop system Stock-Flow Depictions Botanical gardens Horticultural gardens open access book on green cities water policy urban geography and urbanism