Lion City zoopolis: Urban crittizenship in biophilic Singapore

• Main Author: WONG, George
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Biophilic urbanism; Human–animal interaction; Singapore; Urban coexistence; Urban ecology; Urban wildlife; Asian Studies; Demography, Population, and Ecology; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3921; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5179/viewcontent/Lion_City_Zoopolis__Urban_Crittizenship_in_Biophilic_Singapore.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A central theme of Singapore’s “City in Nature” vision is framed through biophilic urbanism, or efforts to harmonize biodiversity and urban development through built, social, and political design. The central discourses of Singapore’s biophilic urbanism have revolved around flora-centric paradigms,...