This hotel is leading change with its pioneering efforts in sustainable design, transforming urban landscapes into green ...

building green spaces is not merely an act of corporate generosity — it is a legal requirement in some areas. Singapore’s government has long promoted itself as a “garden city,” a term ...

Buildings and asphalt absorb heat ... This is all part of Singapore's decadeslong effort to become the "Garden City." Its Green Plan 2030 sets out a series of ambitious environmental goals ...

Singapore calls itself the Garden City, and it’s making good on that ... The push to go green extends to construction as well—green building has been mandatory since 2008.

Whether it’s the vertical jungles on the fronts of buildings or the 18 futuristic ... To them I say: ‘Guys, the whole city is my garden!’ Gee Soo, Singapore tour guide More action is planned ...

Some 47 percent of the "garden city" of Singapore is now covered in vegetation ... Singapore wants to focus on green town planning. Energy-neutral buildings have sprung up throughout the city.

city living here comes at a cost. "I was born in 1959," Yip said. "In Singapore that year, there's no tall buildings." But in the '70s, urban growth took off, and that, coupled with large-scale ...

From a distance, the wild vertical gardens climbing up buildings and the miles of ... launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967. The initiative started as a tree-planting ...

Singapore (as well as many other successful garden cities) has developed upward, into a compressed city, with transit-oriented development (TOD), where most people live and work in high-rise buildings ...

It can appear visionary, a gleaming model of a sustainable city, and it can appear disheartening, littered with buildings ... botanical garden sited on land reclaimed from the Singapore Strait.