https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/city-garden-singapores-journey-becoming-biodiversity-model
Lee Kuan Yew was often called 'Chief Gardener' for his belief in the power of plants and biodiversity to transform people's overall mental well-being, as well as physical spaces. As a city-state, Singapore had the luxury of a centralized government solely concerned with looking after its citizens' well-being and future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLRROkGGBfM
Gain insights into Singapore's transformation from a "Garden City" to a "City in a Garden" in this programme produced by award-winning producer Mike Birkhead

https://cubicoon.com/2021/08/13/a-city-in-a-garden-singapores-vision-of-a-green-city/
by CUBICOON August 13, 2021. With a simple goal to make life more pleasant for its people, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew wanted to transform Singapore into a 'garden city'. From polluted canals, mucky rivers, and a city choked with congestion at the start of its independence in 1965, Singapore is now a global green powerhouse just 55

https://bigthink.com/the-present/supertall-singapore/
In 1973, Lee set up the Garden City Action Committee and sent out green missions across the globe. "Our botanists brought back 8,000 different varieties and got some 2,000 to grow in Singapore."

https://nextcity.org/features/the-city-within-a-garden
Singapore, a dense city-nation of more than five million people, once envisioned itself as a city with gardens but now sees itself as a city within a garden. The city remains the shaper of its built environment, but it shapes with an altered perspective. Cities also apply renaturing to the scale of the neighborhood, district, and precinct.

https://knowledge.csc.gov.sg/world-cities-summit-issue/a-city-in-a-garden/
A City in a Garden. World Cities Summit Issue, June 2008. In the 1960s, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew mooted the creation of a clean and green environment to mitigate the harsh concrete urban environment and improve the quality of life in the city. This was the beginning of Singapore's development into a Garden City.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/green-urban-landscape-cities-Singapore
For a city extension called Marina Bay, we created one of the largest freshwater city reservoirs in the world and set aside 250 acres of prime real estate for the Gardens by the Bay, a "green

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.5822/978-1-61091-621-9_5
Recently, the city has put forth a new motto, "Singapore—City in a Garden.". This may be a small, nuanced difference in language, but it signifies something quite important—that the city is not simply a place of gardens, it is a garden, in which all current and future development and building are nestled (fig. 5.1 ). Figure 5.1.

https://www.nparks.gov.sg/about-us/city-in-a-garden
Today, we live in an increasingly liveable, sustainable, and climate-resilient Singapore. As part of the Singapore Green Plan 2030, we will continue to build upon our greening efforts and transform Singapore into a City in Nature. Our greening journey since the 1960s: 5 key strategies for a City in Nature by 2030

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-0713-3_2
The term 'City in a Garden' is an oxymoron. In many places in the world, city development invariably leads to the destruction of greenery. But in Singapore, we believe that nature and biodiversity are primordial to the wellness of the human spirit and the provision of greenery to support nature is central to the planning for quality of life.

https://theconversation.com/how-urban-gardens-can-boost-biodiversity-and-make-cities-more-sustainable-162810
Privately owned gardens can make up a large portion of a city's greenspace and can have very high functional diversity. (Karen Christensen-Dalsgaard), Author provided. A complicating factor is

https://www.eco-business.com/news/can-singapore-the-city-in-a-garden-grow-into-a-city-in-nature/
Singapore's 'City in a Garden' plan has seen a network of parks, nature reserves and greened buildings span the 70 kilometre-squared island—but the country has just 0.5 per cent primary forest cover left.

https://naturalwalkingcities.com/singapore-a-city-in-a-garden-a-model-for-creating-an-integrated-urban-green-walking-network/
Singapore has been known as a city in a garden ever since the government coined the vision and term "garden city" in the 1967.It has pursued policies to expand new green infrastructure and replace any that is lost due to urban development - taking advantage of its tropical environmental; and they have been successful.

https://www.garden-city.org/
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https://citygardenstl.org/visit-main/
Visit - Citygarden. Visit. Citygarden, a project of the City of Saint Louis, funded by the Gateway Foundation, has carved out three acres in the heart of downtown and transformed them into an exhilarating urban oasis featuring modern and contemporary sculptures, lush landscape, reflecting pools, a cafe, and a playful spray plaza. You won't

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/parks/parks/browse-parks/view-park.cfm?parkID=117&parkName=Citygarden
Spray Plaza by City of St. Louis Staff. Citygarden is an urban sculpture park located in downtown St. Louis. The park is an oasis of free interactive art, fountains and gardens spanning two blocks in downtown St. Louis. Paved, winding paths lead visitors past 24 sculptures resting on wide lawns, six rain gardens, a children's spray plaza and a

https://news.wttw.com/2012/12/13/city-garden
Michael Lipkin | December 13, 2012 9:30 am. Chicago's motto -- urbs in horto -- means "city in a garden." But, at the city's founding, there were few parks to speak of, or formal plans to build more. Now there are hundreds of Chicago parks, covering more than 8,000 acres. Who are the figures behind Chicago's early park expansion, and what drove

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469632643/city-in-a-garden/
This effort to create and maintain a "city in a garden" perpetuated uneven social and economic power relationships throughout the twentieth century. In telling Austin's story, Andrew M. Busch invites readers to consider the wider implications of environmentally friendly urban development. While Austin's mainstream environmental record

https://genius.com/Fall-out-boy-city-in-a-garden-lyrics
Take me home. And the streetlights light, light up. To take me home. I love you, Chicago. You make me feel so summer fling. You know that I know that I owe you everything. I love you, Chicago

https://www.amazon.com/City-Garden-Environmental-Transformations-Twentieth-Century/dp/1469632640
City in a Garden is a fresh and well-fortified approach to some of the most central questions in the urban history of twentieth-century America.--Christopher C. Sellers, author of Crabgrass Crucible About the Author

https://go.gov.sg/ethos-world-cities-summit-issue
and trade-offs in the city's planning and development. The balance between central planning and organic growth, or between redevelopment and conservation, should ultimately serve Singapore's development for the next 40 to 50 years. The city's physical limitations require different ways of thinking and planning. Discussions on the city's key

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_City_in_a_Garden.html?id=2Qo9zQEACAAJ
The City in a Garden: A Guide to the History of Hyde Park and Kenwood Chicago studies publications series: Author: John Mark Hansen: Publisher: College at the University of Chicago, 2019: ISBN: 1647130816, 9781647130817: Length: 359 pages : Export Citation: BiBTeX EndNote RefMan

https://www.livingetc.com/ideas/urban-gardening-ideas
We all know the powers of a strategically placed mirror, and this old design trick can work just as well in urban gardens as indoors. Go oversized and mirror a whole wall of your patio to 'double' the space, or be more subtle by hiding mirrors in amongst your greenery. 18. Use tiles in an urban garden.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/25/style/zhongnanhai-architecture-history-intl-hnk/index.html
Paramilitary guards stand outside the Xinhua gate of Zhongnanhai in Beijing on May 25, 2011. David Gray/Reuters. CNN —. Editor's Note: Jonathan Chatwin is the author of " Long Peace Street

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv22nrd061ro
Courtney Richman, 26, pushed Myra Coutinho-Lopez to the floor of Lloyds Bank in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, in December 2021 after growing impatient in the queue behind the pensioner.

https://www.thegardenisland.com/2024/05/31/hawaii-news/city-of-honolulu-salaries-resolution-closer-to-2024-ballot/
HONOLULU — Nine Honolulu City Council resolutions urging voter-approved charter amendments to overhaul how the city pays its employees were reduced to one this week.

https://www.mlive.com/weather/2024/05/lily-leaf-beetle-now-devastating-michigan-gardens-heres-a-secret-to-save-your-flowers.html
The lily leaf beetle is also called the scarlet lily beetle because of its bright scarlet color. The lily leaf beetle mostly feeds on certain lilies, but also a few other Michigan garden favorites.

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/31/downtown-farmers-market-salt-lake-beer-garden
What's new: The market will also feature a beer garden serving Level Crossing brews. The beer garden will open every second Saturday of the month between 11am and 2pm with live music. "We haven't had a beer garden at the market in maybe a decade," Gillespie said. "Hopefully, there will be a lot more promotion and a lot more energy around it."

https://www.phila.gov/2024-05-31-mayor-parker-and-city-departments-launch-one-philly-a-united-city-citywide-cleaning-program/
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker announces the One Philly, United Citywide Cleaning and Greening Program will launch on Monday, June 3. The Office of Clean and Green Initiatives in collaboration with various city departments along with quasi-governmental agencies and nonprofits, will employ a proactive and holistic strategy to address the many chronic quality of life issues related to litter, illegal

https://www.independent.com/2024/05/30/citys-first-community-garden-new-playground-and-extended-bike-path-now-open-at-armitos-park/
GOLETA, CA, May 30, 2024 - The City's first Community Garden, new playground and extended bike path are officially open at Armitos Park in Old Town. The sun popped out just in time for a ribbon cutting ceremony held yesterday afternoon, May 29, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. More than 75 people attended the celebratory event, many of them proud renters of one of the 50 garden plots.