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A City in Blue and Green

Publication year: 2019

ISBN: 978-981-13-9597-0

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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.


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science / Sustainable Development / Water Policy / Water Governance / Water management / Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) / Construction Management / Human Geography / Economic Geography / 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 / green cities