Overview
- Contextualizes parks’ design and planning in the discourse on western and eastern traditions
- Helps readers grasp the potential social and cultural roles of public parks in dense urban settlements
- Highlights the major evolutionary phases of Singapore’s parks, gardens and public green space
Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Park system planning products respond to national policies and result in structural urban elements and a range of park types.
Global (western ideology) and local issues have influenced park system planning and the physical design of individual parks over time. However, in Singapore the eastern literature has not addressed the development of parks and urban green spaces in terms of historical perspective.
The publication reveals the interrelations between visual representations and changing political ideologies. Singapore’s system of public parks is shown to represent an iconography created by the state. Its set of constructed narratives elucidates on the potential social, cultural and environmental roles of public parks. However, Singapore’s park system presents a novel paradigm for expanding Asian cities, characterized by evolving urban imaging strategies.
In framing Singapore’s case study within the broader perspective of eastern applications of western planning and design practices, and constructions of nation in post-colonial countries, the manuscript establishes the contribution of the Singaporean model of design and planning of parks to the international debate.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Raffaella Sini is an assistant professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture, in the College of Art and Architecture of the University of Idaho. She has held positions at various universities around the world, including five years as assistant professor in the Department of Architecture of the National University of Singapore.
Master’s degree in architecture and PhD in landscape architecture from University of Rome La Sapienza, Raffaella has a multidisciplinary background in architecture, landscape architecture, planning and public art.
Her primary research interests are in the areas of designing contemporary landscape architectures and in cultural landscapes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Singapore’s Park System Master Planning
Book Subtitle: A Nation Building Tool to Construct Narratives in Post-Colonial Countries
Authors: Raffaella Sini
Series Title: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6746-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6744-1Published: 07 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6746-5Published: 23 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2198-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 355
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 75 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Physical Geography, Cultural Heritage