A City in Blue and Green [electronic resource] : The Singapore Story / by Peter G. Rowe, Limin Hee.
By: Rowe, Peter G [author.]
Contributor(s): Hee, Limin [author.] | SpringerLink (Online service)
Material type: TextPublisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019Edition: 1st ed. 2019Description: IX, 152 p. 1 illus. online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789811395970Subject(s): 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 GeographyAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 338.927 LOC classification: GE195-199GE196Online resources: Click here to access onlineIntroduction -- 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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