SINGAPORE SWING:

A JOURNEY THROUGH
SINGAPORES ATTRACTIONS
BLOOLOOP LIVE, SINGAPORE 2017
WONWHEE KIM
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 EMPRESS PLACE BUILDING

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 LOCATION

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 PRESENT DAY

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 UGLY SUPERIMPOSED MAP BUT YOU GET THE IDEA

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 RECLAMATION

Reclaimed land

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 ORIGINS OF SINGAPORE

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 TRADE

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 IMPORTANCE OF TIN

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 REPURPOSED TIN MINE SUNWAY LAGOON

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 QUAYS

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 QUAYS

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 PRESENT DAY

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 PRESENT DAY

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 POINTS OF INTEREST

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 BOTANICAL GARDENS

16th Century

Today

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 SINGAPORE BOTANICAL GARDEN

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 RUBBER

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 RUBBER

1922
First planted in
1895
in Malaysia 1902 2 million acres,
16,000 50% of the worlds
acres entire supply

4/5th 1990s
Purchased for Firestone,
Goodyear, US Rubber
of this supply came through Company became SG rubber market was the
Singapore for re-export cosmopolitan worlds pricing centre

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 CHINATOWN

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 SRI MARIAMMAN TEMPLE

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 RESIDENTS

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 THE BOOMING 20s

Rubber Prices Tin Prices

2500
40,000

35,000
2000
1920
30,000 International
Tin Agreements
1920
US$/Tonne

1500 25,000

20,000
1000
15,000

500 10,000

5,000

0
0
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950
1900 1915 1930 1945 1960 1975 1990 2005

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 TWO HAKKA BROTHERS

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 HAW PAR EMPIRE

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 PROSPERITY

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 HAW PAR EMPIRE

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 HAW PAR EMPIRE

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 HAW PAR EMPIRE

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 HAW PAR EMPIRE

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 HAW PAR EMPIRE

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 BROTHERS WITH A DREAM

Production

Amusement
Distribution Facilities

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 SHAW BROTHERS

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 GREAT WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK

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 NEW WORLD AMUSEMENT PARK

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 THE ALHAMBRA

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 LATE 1930s - WAR

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 GOVERNMENT HILL REPURPOSED TO HQ

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 LKY

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 1965 EXPULSION

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 CHALLENGES FACED BY SINGAPORE IN 1965

No natural resources of its

own

Depended on Malaysia for

water

Depended on entrepot trade

More ports near Singapore

developed

Double-digit+ Unemployment
as British left Singapore

Population is growing

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 FORGING OF AN IDENTITY

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 MERLION PARK

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 MERLION PARK

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 IMPORTANCE OF WATER
Collecting every drop of rain
Kranji Upper Seletar Lower Seletar
Kranji Reservoir was created by damming up Upper Seletar Reservoir is Singapore's third impounding lower Seletar Reservoir was constructed by building a dam across Sungel
the river mouth and is rich in birdlife reservoir, after MacRitchie and Peirce Reservoirs. Rainwater Seletar Rainwater that falls in parts of Yishun and Ang Mo Kio towns is
biodiversity. Rainwater that falls in Choa Chu falling in Woodlands town flows to the Upper Seletar Reservoir conveyed to the Lower Seletar Reservoir through drains and canals.
Kang and Bukit Panjang towns flows to the through drains and canals.
Kranji Reservoir through drains and canals.
Punggol and Serangoon
Punggol and Serangoon Reservoirs are Singapore's 16th and 17th reservoirs.
They were formed by damming major rivers. Rainwater from Sengkang,Punggol.
Sarimbun, Murai, Poyan and Hougang towns will be channelled to them
and Tengeh
These four reservoirs are located in
generally uninhabited areas
in the west

Jurong Lake
Jurong lake is a man-
made freshwater lake.
Rainwater that falls in the
Jurong West and Jurong
East towns is channelled
to the lake through
drains and
canals.

Pandan
Constructed
Over swamp
land and the original Pandan river
Pandan Reservoir
receives its water through drains
and canals from areas such as
Clement) and Bukit Batok towns.
Upper and lower
Peirce, MacRitchie
The first of Singapore's
reservoirs. these are
located within the nature
reserves The reservoir
waters are pristine as they
an left in their natural
states
Bedok
The first to tap water from an urban catchment Bedok Reservoir
was converted from a former sand quarry. Nine stormwater
collection stations tap the rainwater from surrounding urbanised
catchments like Bedok and Tampines towns.
Marina
Manna Reservoir, Singapore's 15th reservoir and the first reservoir
Water catchment (west)
in the city, has the largest and most urbanised catchment at
10,000 hectares. Rain water is collected from as far as
Queenstown, Geylang East. Ang Mo Kio and Toa Payoh areax. Water catchment (Central)
Batok towns. Water catchment (east)
Protected water catchment

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 FIRST ZOO

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 FIRST ZOOS

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 MR. ZOO

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 NIGHT SAFARI

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 CREATING LAND

578 719 sq km

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 MARINA PROJECT

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 MARINA PROJECT

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 VICE FARMS

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 GAMBLING HALL

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 A NEW LIFE PLANNED FOR AN OLD FORTRESS
THE STRAITS TIMES, 1 AUGUST 1967, PAGE 10

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 FANTASY ISLAND

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 ASIAN VILLAGE

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 VOLCANO LAND

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 RESORTS WORLD SENTOSA UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

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 THE GARDEN CITY
When morale is down people become apologetic and the
place is in a shambles. Singapore will not be allowed to go
thus. We will keep it trim, clean and green. Flowers will
bloom and ferns will grow where there was dirt and tarmac.
Other governments can eve you fountains or stadiums or
monuments. But they can't give you the capacity to organise
and discipline yourselves. 1968

Even in the sixties, when the government had to grapple

with grave problems of unemployment, lack of housing,
health and education, I pushed for the planting of trees and
shrubs. I have always believed that a blighted urban jungle of
concrete destroys the human spirit. We need the greenery of
nature to lift up our spirits. So in 1967,1 launched the Garden
City programme to green up the whole island and try to
make it into a
garden. 1995

Without the greening effort, Singapore would have been a

barren, ugly city, There would have been few trees, planted
haphazardly here and there, but there would have been none
of the planning or the care and maintenance that sustain our
greenery today. 2012

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 LKY IN LUSAKA

1964 1970 1979

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 GARDEN CITY <> CITY IN A GARDEN

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