LECTURE: Garden City Singapore- with Jane

Singapore is sometimes called “The World’s Most Deliberate City” because its existence and global status were totally engineered through precise, long-term state planning rather than natural progression. Raffles is famous for his vision of Singapore and led to much of its success. It was the jewel for UK in trade until Japanese captured Singapore and occupied it from 1942-45. After Malaysia separation in 1965 and Independence, Lee Kuan Yew turned it around from a small poor trading port and through state led programs created a meticulously managed society where everything is thought out for the short and long term before executed. Most global trade runs through Singapore waters making it a valuable port for most Countries. I took photos of what I thought were significant points in our Singapore presentation (see photos). The official languages are: English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil. Singapore is rated as the one of the most business friendly countries in the world. It’s the site of many multinational head offices for the Asia region.

We were in Singapore in 2016 with Lee when he was considering going to school here and we had a great time. We came back in ay ATW23 and went to Mandai Wildlife Reserve Night Safari at night for an “entirely different type of experience”. See the 3 footprints (use right arrow at the bottom to move to the next footprintbeginning with https://findpenguins.com/bruce-loves-to-travel/….

This modern city has transformed from becoming a free port in 1819 to Asia’s busiest port in 1930 to Independence in 1965 where GDP for capita was $500 to today’s GDP per capita to over $70,000. For a Country with no natural resources, it is now a banking and trading hub with a very expensive cost of living, and strong government control over everything and one of the safest, cleanest, environmentally friendly, accessible and “smartest” cities in the World. The city is all about being GREEN and the gardens there.Read more