Analysis Of Singapore: Biophilic City

Singapore: biophilic city introduces and presents Singapore and their great achievements as an island city located just off of southern Malaysia in Asia. Singapore consists of many biophilic buildings and even cities which according to the film and Tim Beatley means “bringing nature into the daily life of ordinary city dwellers”. What this really looks like, is plants growing around, within, and on buildings themselves. The city itself is beautiful and a lot different than what most countries are probably used to. The film introduces not just buildings with plants, but it introduces a lifestyle that Singapore has decided to take part of. This lifestyle took hard work to bring about and takes hard work to maintain, but the city is delighted with their accomplishments and stands by their hard work proudly. The film is intended for any people of interest, though, it is mainly …show more content…
I have known about possibilities to urban cities. Here in Arizona there is a city called ArcoSanti which is an urban city that is based off of design and community and controlled off of the environment. However, I do not know much about that city either. Though when it comes to an urban city such as a biophilic city, the knowledge I have of them, has all come from this film. I did find this documentary to be very interesting and I truly enjoyed learning about all the accomplishments Singapore has made. I did not expect to see plants on ceilings and walls and never-the-less it actually looking beautiful and being beautiful at the same time. I expected to see a city that sustained itself in some biological way, but not like this. Once I had a clearer understanding to what a biophilic city was, I was interested to know how it worked and what it was good for. I was also curious to know why Singapore decided to go almost entirely biophilic and how that has effected them since they switched, negatively or