{"id":16813,"date":"2013-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2013\/08\/06\/singapores-green-corridor-our-jade-necklace-to-treasure\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T07:32:20","slug":"singapores-green-corridor-our-jade-necklace-to-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2013\/08\/06\/singapores-green-corridor-our-jade-necklace-to-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore’s Green Corridor – our “Jade Necklace” to treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

On August 5th, David Strand<\/a>\u00a0(Visiting Research Fellow, ARI NUS and Professor of Political Science, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania) presented his paper \u201cA Walk in the Park: Singapore\u2019s Green Corridor in Light of Manhattan\u2019s High Line.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Green Corridor comprises the 26km-long island-spanning Railway Lands (disused since 2011) which form a unique\u00a0mix of secondary forest growth, grasslands, small-scale fruit and veg farms,\u00a0canals, streams and marshland along the former\u00a0tracks.\u00a0The tranquil\u00a0country lane ambience\u00a0is\u00a0juxtaposed along its length with Singapore\u2019s largely\u00a0high-rise and congested urban setting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>In the seminar Prof Strand sought to compare the Green Corridor (centre)\u00a0with other urban post-industrial reclaimed green spaces such as the New York High Line (left)\u00a0and the Schoneberger Sudgelande Nature Park near Berlin (right).<\/span><\/p>\n

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The talk spanned aspects of urban planning, social engineering,\u00a0conservation and the many layers of meaning that make such contested spaces so interesting.\u00a0Mr Leong Kwok Peng, Vice President of Nature Society Singapore (NSS), was present at the talk and\u00a0Prof Strand credited\u00a0NSS with\u00a0bringing the precarious future of the green corridor to the public’s attention. In summing up, if the city of Boston’s beloved linear park, is known as its “Emerald Necklace” so too might the Green Corridor become the “Jade Necklace”, a\u00a0Singapore national treasure.<\/p>\n

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Prof David Strand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This event\u00a0was co-organized by FASS Cities Research Cluster<\/a>, ARI\u00a0Asian Urbanisms Cluster<\/a>, and the Singapore Research Nexus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 5th, David Strand\u00a0(Visiting Research Fellow, ARI NUS and Professor of Political Science, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania) presented his paper \u201cA Walk in the Park: Singapore\u2019s Green Corridor in Light of Manhattan\u2019s High Line.\u201d   The Green Corridor comprises the 26km-long island-spanning Railway Lands (disused since 2011) which form a unique\u00a0mix of secondary forest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27804,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813\/revisions\/27804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}