Liveable Landscapein High-Rise and High-Density Built Environment for Health Promotion in Singapore

Abstract

In recent years, liveable landscape design for high-rise has been introduced as an antidote to elevate the significance and value of living environment in high-density urban developments. Liveable landscape could be designed together with buildings because architecture as an applied ecology (Yeang, 1999) challenges urban constructions to integrate with natural systems in a sustainable way.

New theories, such as green urbanism is proposed as an anchor which defines interdisciplinary design pedagogy to shape sustainable places, communities and lifestyles (Beatley, 2000). Furthermore, the feature of liveable landscape looks beyond the physiological parameters of health and comfort and includes the psychological well-being of people and communities as well.

In this paper, the author uses Singapore as an example to explore three main aspects of liveable landscape as a healing place for people who live in the “concrete jungle”, victims of green space scarcity; and discusses the potential of liveable landscape implement for other ultra-density urbanism such as Hong Kong’s.