Rowe, Peter G.

A City in Blue and Green The Singapore Story / [electronic resource] : by Peter G. Rowe, Limin Hee. - 1st ed. 2019. - IX, 152 p. 1 illus. online resource.

Introduction -- Early Days -- Visions of Clean and Green -- Water Resources and Independence -- Gardens, Parks and Green Reserves -- Ways Forward -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

Open Access

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.

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10.1007/978-981-13-9597-0 doi


Sustainable development.
Environmental management.
Urban geography.
Building—Superintendence.
Construction industry—Management.
Construction superintendence.
Human geography.
Economic geography.
Sustainable Development.
Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).
Construction Management.
Human Geography.
Economic Geography.

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