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Autore |
Rowe Peter G |
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Titolo |
A City in Blue and Green [[electronic resource] ] : The Singapore Story / / by Peter G. Rowe, Limin Hee |
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Singapore, : Springer Nature, 2019 |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sustainable development |
Environmental management |
Urban geography |
Building—Superintendence |
Construction industry—Management |
Construction superintendence |
Human geography |
Economic geography |
Sustainable Development |
Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management |
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) |
Construction Management |
Human Geography |
Economic Geography |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Early Days -- Visions of Clean and Green -- Water Resources and Independence -- Gardens, Parks and Green Reserves -- Ways Forward -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about |
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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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