Sound
city master plans always have great public spaces as a means to provide outdoor
living and community meeting spaces as well as areas for recreation and
sometimes a "green" relief from the dense built up environment. In
places like Italy, the piazza is the standard urban public space that serves
most of these purposes, but rarely is it a space of green landscape.
Of
course New York has Central Park, an
oasis among the forest of high rises and one of the genuine drivers of people's
desire to own property along Central Park one of the most valuable addresses of
real estate in the world.
In
Asia the two competing cities of Hong Kong and Singapore also have their major
parks. Hong Kong's Victoria Park built in the
1950's on reclaimed land which used to be a typhoon shelter for boats. Singapore's Gardens by the Bay newly
opened in 2012 is also built on reclaimed land around Marina Bay. So how do
these parks compare?
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| Victoria Park, Hong Kong |
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| Gardens by the Bay, Singapore |
