Childhood Landscape: Sustainability Issue in Singapore

Running Head: SCIENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Topic- Childhood landscape: sustainability issue
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2CHILDHOOD LANDSCAPE ASSIGNMENT
For this Childhood Landscape assignment, I have chosen the city Singapore as the city
has a special place in my heart. I was born in Singapore and spend some time of my childhood
there before shifting to Canada. The city has experienced some of the drastic changes in recent
past in respect of planet biodiversity sustainability, community and people changes in regard to
socio-economic and environmental aspects, economic prospects focusing on industries and
businesses and also on cultural policies and historical significances (Soini and Birkeland 2014).
But among all these I am going to discuss about the cultural sustainability of Singapore in this
assignment and the issue is interpreted from changes based on past-present climax.
Past vs present
Well, Singapore the island city state off south Malaysia, is well known for its business
opportunities and cultural richness full of vibrant lifestyles of people (Tan and Tan 2014). Sky
touching skylarks and skylines are most striking features of the city. But its remote past was
totally different from what it is today. Though, personally I was not there at the time of
Singapore’s emergence as a city to experience changes but have learned from my previous
generations and have myself felt the change to some extent.
Singapore was previously under British colonial rule and was called British Colony of
Singapore. In 1819 a trading port was established to carry out naval trade with other countries.
But a lot of social unrest and disputes caused delay in modernization but it somehow managed to
be a part of globalization and its strong international
trading accelerated its growth as well supported its
multicultural population (Tan and Tan 2014). Preserving
cultural heritage sites was not much emphasized in the
past but situation has changed in present after huge