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The Greening of Singapore: Parks and Roadside Trees from Colonial Rule to the Present
- Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
- Volume 91, Part 2, No.3 15, December 2018
- pp. 79-101
- 10.1353/ras.2018.0031
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
Under British colonial rule, the Singapore Municipality and the Singapore Botanic Gardens planted roadside trees and created open spaces for recreational activities. In 1967 the government introduced a Garden City concept and began large-scale planting of roadside trees, followed in the mid-1970s by the creation of parks to meet the recreational needs of an increasingly affluent society. As a result of these efforts, Singapore had at least one million trees and more than 300 parks by 2010. The country has now adopted a ‘City in a Garden’ concept, launching a new phase in the greening of urban Singapore.