city in nature
People
Adib Jalal on defining relationships with place
Urbanist Adib Jalal explores our evolving relationships with the built environment and places connection at the heart of meaningful design.
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Curated garden or curated wild: Singapore
Singapore is geographically primed for natural complexity in its ecology, and could greatly benefit from the many offerings of rich ecosystems. But the island is primarily experienced as a preened garden. For our own good, is it time we embraced a messier urban wild?
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Dense, Green and Blue. Is Singapore Ready to be a ‘City in Nature’?
In the first of three articles, we recap the recent symposium ‘Dense and Green Building Typologies: Architecture as an Urban Ecosystem’. Part 1 looks at government perspectives.