Title: Parks for the Community: The City State’s Modernist Planning Model
Abstract: The modernist attitude of planning and designing the land from the aerial viewpoint is reflected in the extensive urban renewal program of new towns and the overarching island-wide greening beautification program – the model of ‘open plan’, with parks conceived as emblems of collective interest and social welfare. However, a postmodern critique was engaged by planners, who begun to fragment the green belt into a myriad of smaller town parks and neighbourhood parks, which they scattered in the new towns. The park system represents the nation by integrating tourism marketing products, and by portraying a globalized aesthetics of ‘tropicality’.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-04-24
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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