Manufacturing Green Consensus: Urban Greenspace Governance in Singapore

TY - CHAP

T1 - Manufacturing Green Consensus

T2 - Urban Greenspace Governance in Singapore

AU - Gulsrud, Natalie Marie

AU - Ooi, Can Seng

PY - 2014/1/1

Y1 - 2014/1/1

N2 - In an increasingly global economy, being green, or having an environmentally sustainbale place brand, provides a competitive advantage. Singapore, long known as the ``garden city´´ has been a leader in green city imaging since the founding of the equatorial city-state, contributing, in large part to the city’s profile as the economic giant of Southeast Asia. Using a political ecology lens, the paper aims to uncover the contested socio-economic narratives of green city imaging by examining the evolution of the garden city branding scheme since Singapore’s independence in 1959. Results show that entrepreneurial governance such as green city branding has important and uneven political consequences for the social and economic fabric of our cities.

AB - In an increasingly global economy, being green, or having an environmentally sustainbale place brand, provides a competitive advantage. Singapore, long known as the ``garden city´´ has been a leader in green city imaging since the founding of the equatorial city-state, contributing, in large part to the city’s profile as the economic giant of Southeast Asia. Using a political ecology lens, the paper aims to uncover the contested socio-economic narratives of green city imaging by examining the evolution of the garden city branding scheme since Singapore’s independence in 1959. Results show that entrepreneurial governance such as green city branding has important and uneven political consequences for the social and economic fabric of our cities.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-0-415-71410-5

SP - 77

EP - 92

BT - Urban Forests, Trees, and Green Space

A2 - Sandberg, Anders

A2 - Bardekjian, Adrina

A2 - Butt, Sadia

PB - Routledge

CY - New York

ER -