Greening the City-state of Singapore

Under a post-independence policy of economic and urban g row th, the Singapore government has initiated a greening effort to transform Singapore into a garden city as it develops to become a predominantly high-rise, modern post-industrial city-state. The aim is to make Singapore a better place to live'. The paper will examine the vision of this development. The planning strategy and factors critical to the greening of Singapore into a garden city will also be discussed.