Singapore's Park System Master Planning: A Nation Building Tool to Construct Narratives in Post-Colonial Countries
Sini, Raffaella
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2019-05-07
- 售價: $6,310
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,995
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 355
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9811367442
- ISBN-13: 9789811367441
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商品描述
Introduction.- Framing the Discourse of Urban Green-provision and Constructions of Nation: Western Policies and Singapore's Debate.- Design and Planning of Singapore's Public Open Space, Parks and Gardens in the Early Colonial Times.- The British Colonial Planning Model provides an Integrated System of Public Open Spaces: the 1958 Master Plan.- Parks for the Community: the Modernist City State Planning Model.- Design of Parks and Public Open Space in the Post-Modern: from Creation of Character and Visual Identity to Theme - Gardens.- Heritage Parks. Re-purposing and Thematizing Colonial Gardens: Construction of History and Nation in City Parks.- Singapore's Green Infrastructure Concept and Biophilic Urbanism.- The 'Singapore Playground': System of Themed Public Parks Conceived as Green Infrastructure. Building Environmental, Social and Cultural Sustainability through Nature-Reconstruction, Community Participation and Identity-Making.- Conclusions.
作者簡介
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.
