The Garden
by Lee Chang Ming
We think of parks as places of rest and leisure, to escape the hustle and bustle of fast-paced city life in Singapore and to seek refuge in nature, but in fact, these gardens are designed and built by humans and not nature. Parks provide the illusion of the natural world: tamed and pruned for human consumption.
Singapore branded itself as a “Garden City” in 1967 and “A City in a Garden” in 1998. As with many aspects of Singaporean society, even plants are not spared from the strict policies and politics. Parks as controlled environments perhaps then present an appropriate metaphor for looking at tensions between nature and man-made, natural and artifice, authenticity and authorship.
by Lee Chang Ming
We think of parks as places of rest and leisure, to escape the hustle and bustle of fast-paced city life in Singapore and to seek refuge in nature, but in fact, these gardens are designed and built by humans and not nature. Parks provide the illusion of the natural world: tamed and pruned for human consumption.
Singapore branded itself as a “Garden City” in 1967 and “A City in a Garden” in 1998. As with many aspects of Singaporean society, even plants are not spared from the strict policies and politics. Parks as controlled environments perhaps then present an appropriate metaphor for looking at tensions between nature and man-made, natural and artifice, authenticity and authorship.
The Garden
by Lee Chang Ming
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by Lee Chang Ming
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Year:
2026
ISBN:
100 NOK
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