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Sustainable Urban Design
Published in AbdulLateef Olanrewaju, Zalina Shari, Zhonghua Gou, Greening Affordable Housing, 2019
Singapore is recognized in the global marketplace as one of the prominent and leading cities of Asia with an innovative sustainable development approach (Rimmer and Dick, 2009). Singapore was established by the British as a colonial trading post in 1819, and for the next 150 years, it became the dominant city of British Malaya. In 1965, Singapore shifted away from hinterland Malaya and became an independent city-state. As a result of flexible economic policies and openness to foreign investments, Singapore’s economic development tripled per capita income in the 1980–1995 periods (Rimmer and Dick, 2009; Yuen, 2011). Within half a century, the low-rise former British colonial trading post became a high-rise post-industrial garden city of 5.4 million covering an urban area of 700 km2 (Department of Statistics, Singapore, 2014). The transformation to a garden city together with innovative and sustainable urban planning policies attracted the attention of many urban scholars and professionals (Yuen, 2011).
Water Scarcity and Sustainable Urban Green Landscape
Published in Saeid Eslamian, Faezeh Eslamian, Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity, 2017
Soleyman Dayani, Mohammad R. Sabzalian, Mahdi Hadipour, Saeid Eslamian
The garden city is basically a planned settlement that integrates the natural environment into the urban living style to provide high-quality social housing and local jobs in a beautiful and healthy place with diverse communities. The idea was first devised based on a work by the British writer Ebenezer Howard in 1898 [248]. The major principles of this model include providing fair and long-term opportunities for citizens’ housing, employment, and social and cultural integration, interlaced and accessible transport systems, and imaginative design and planning of urban elements with greeneries to enhance and support the natural environment. The city is intended to be planned, self-contained, with proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture. The idea is among the first manifestations of urban sustainable development that provides not only individual opportunities for local food or energy production but also the fair distribution of community assets. The garden city principles are designed as an indivisible and interlocking framework for the delivery of high-quality places for citizens. The open or green spaces are considered as the integral parts of modern development plans that connect their spatial array to the overall configuration of developed zones. Today, the garden city model is regarded as a cornerstone of modern urban planning in general, and open (green) space planning in particular.
Improving residential outdoor space experience in developing countries: Evidence from a housing estate in Nigeria
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2023
Edidiong Ukpong, Utibe Akah, Hafeez Agbabiaka
In Nigerian society as a developing nation, the concern for environmental values may be traced back to the olden days when caring for the residential environment was an adaptive approach to the traditional housing environment (Ola, 1984). Then there was the tendency to view landscape in terms of aesthetic and symbolic meaning. With this conception, the environment must have influenced the perception of people who strived to create an aesthetic appreciation of nature by caring for their surroundings. They grew flowering and fruiting plants, which continued to bloom and sent out a beautiful fragrance most of the year. These trees improve the outdoor microclimate and human thermal comfort (Zhao et al., 2018). Their perceptive organisation of their surroundings, though somewhat naive in the light of present-day understanding of aesthetic quality, illustrated a happy acceptance of outdoor values and an explicit concern for improving the quality of those surroundings. Falade (1998) has noted that the colonial administration also provided the country with a legacy of suburban residential development, which was based on the garden city concept (Shadar & Maslovski, 2021; Souther, 2021). Garden city principles are based on providing a conducive natural environment with a green infrastructure network linked to biological diversity, life variability, and resilient climatic conditions.