Launched! WW II@Bukit Brown

“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.” (Baba Dioum, 1968.)   A quote by the Guest of Honour  Senior Minister of State , Desmond Lee (National Development and Home Affairs) in his address , captured aptly the journey of the Bukit Brown community leading to another milestone in what has been dubbed ” a movement” with the launch on 16 April, […]

Feedback on Bukit Brown

  How you can give feedback on Bukit Brown in the Draft Master Plan 2013 by Ian Chong I would like to encourage readers who have an interest in protecting Bukit Brown and other parts of  Singapore’s natural and cultural heritage to send in your thoughts about the recent draft Land Use  Plan to the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Apart from the regular feedback channel on the Land Use Plan site, you can send your feedback directly to the Permanent Secretary […]

Bukit Brown + Singapore

  Bukit Brown, Development and Possibilities for Singapore By Ian Chong Recent events and public discussions about public transport, the environment, and heritage should give pause to the proposed construction of the dual four-lane carriageway across Bukit Brown. Singaporeans have one last opportunity to consider the consequences of irrevocably altering the face of an important part of our nation’s natural and cultural landscape before the planned exhumations begin in October 2013. Surveys for Our Singapore Conversation indicate that 62 percent […]