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This book is about Singapore’s development into a city in which water and vegetation, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a livable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely urbanized circumstances, which can be achieved, along with complementary roles of environmental conservation, ecology, public open-space management and the greening of buildings, together with infrastructural improvements.
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Rowe, P.G., Hee, L. (2019). Introduction. In: A City in Blue and Green. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9597-0_1
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