Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 5 Issue 1

Deforestation in a tropical compact city part a: understanding its socio-ecological impacts

Puay Yok Tan, Yuanqiu Feng, Yun Hye Hwang

Secondary forest loss in Singapore has recently emerged as a contentious issue that tests the relationships between state, public and civil society, but debates on this issue have…

Urban nature for resilient and liveable cities

Cheryl Desha, Angela Chenoweth Reeve, Peter William Newman, Timothy Beatley

Net positive biophilic urbanism

Janis Lynn Birkeland

Positive Development and Biophilic Urbanism appear to be grounded in a different human-nature relationship. Biophilic Urbanism builds on the theory that humans have an innate…

The biophilic city and the quest for paradise

Robert Fredrick Young

This manuscript explores the possibilities for global concepts of paradise to serve a cross-cultural urban environmental discourse. The purpose of this discourse would be to…

Becoming biophilic: challenges and opportunities for biophilic urbanism in urban planning policy

Helene Littke

This paper discusses challenges and opportunities for the implementation of biophilic urbanism in urban green planning policy through a case study of the Green living Spaces plan…

Managing deforestation in a tropical compact city part b: urban ecological approaches to landscape design

Yun Hye Hwang, Yuanqiu Feng, Puay Yok Tan

This study recognizes that a number of socio-ecological impacts will result from current and future secondary forest loss in Singapore. Addressing the gap between ecological…

Biophilic urbanism: the potential to transform

Stephen Kellert