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    Cultivating the City, Citygreen Issue 8
    Cultivating the City, Citygreen Issue 8
    Cultivating the City, Citygreen Issue 8
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    Cultivating the City, Citygreen Issue 8

    By Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team

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    CITYGREEN, winner of the APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for three consecutive years - 2014, 2013 and 2012, is a biannual publication of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore. It presents current research on greening and ecology of the urban environment, and features outstanding green projects in international cities. This issue of CITYGREEN showcases the different forms that “Urban Horticulture” can take, including a shopping mall, public housing project, airport, and school. In “Parks & Landscapes”, two gardens designed specifically for children are compared, the new state-of-the-art Far East Organization Children’s Garden at Gardens by the Bay and Asia’s first children’s garden, Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden, at Singapore Botanic Gardens.

    One of the key aims of CITYGREEN is to promote interdisciplinary thought between policy experts, professionals, and researchers on issues related to our urban landscape— for example, how urban greening can result in an overall improvement in quality of life, mitigate urban environmental pollution, and increase the competitive advantage of cities in an increasingly global economy.

    An important issue that cities face is the integration of urban landscapes with ecological systems. In “Commentary”, Dave Kendal and Mark J. McDonnell advocate that urban landscape managers have a unique capacity to contribute to the adaptation of cities through careful tree selection and management.

    Cities have adopted similar yet distinct positions on their green branding. Natalie Marie Gulsrud observes that the concept of “Green City Branding” increasingly includes level and quality of “greenness”.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCentre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
    ISBN9789810913083
    Cultivating the City, Citygreen Issue 8
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    Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team

    The Research branch of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore, engages in multidisciplinary research on the greening and ecology of cities. Through its key research programs on plants, ecology and social studies, it aims to enhance greenery planning, design and management in cities.

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      Cultivating the City, Citygreen Issue 8 - Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team

      The 5th Skyrise Greenery Awards 2013

      Nurturing Excellence in Skyrise Greenery in Singapore

      Text by Lok Yan Ling

      Images as credited

      Skyrise greenery, a concept coined in Singapore, refers to both rooftop and vertical greenery. The skyrise greenery footprint in Singapore has grown exponentially over the years, with more than 60 hectares (equivalent to 84 football fields) of green roofs today. This approach to multidimensional greening espouses the country’s City in a Garden vision and contributes to a unique tropical architectural landscape, where green roofs and walls compose an elevated pervasive green matrix.

      Launched in 2008, the Skyrise Greenery Awards is the first set of awards in the region to recognise and reward skyrise greening efforts in developments. The Awards recognises the concerted effort of architects, building owners, designers, developers, landscape architects, and contractors who have creatively integrated sky gardens and vertical greenery in their projects.

      The Awards was previously jointly organised by National Parks Board (NParks) and Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA). In 2013, NParks took the lead in organising the Awards, in collaboration with Building and Construction Authority, Landscape Industry Association (Singapore), Singapore Green Building Council, SIA, Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects, and Urban Redevelopment Authority.

      Over the years, the Awards has attracted entries that display innovative and refreshing incorporations of skyrise greenery in their developments and has awarded projects that have since become architectural icons, which have woven their way into Singapore’s skyrise greenery

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