Demographics That Might Provide Helpful Context for Their Responses
She is from Singapore and currently lives in Singapore
She is 22 years old
She studies pharmacy
Key Findings from the Interview
See greening projects everywhere in Singapore, a lot of the newer buildings all have rooftop gardens, most rooftop gardens are open to public (since about 80% of housing in Singapore are public housing, owned by government), people in Singapore are really law-abiding so it’s safe to open rooftops to public
recent experience of visiting an urban green area in Singapore: visited a green open space with benches, flowers; it is on ground floor in the center of business area, surrounded by skyscrapers; there were people walking their dogs, there was also a swing; the open space wasn’t too bushy so not too many bugs, it has appropriate amount of greenery
urban greening projects & reflections in Singapore: the greening projects are great, they were designed really well (e.g. tree types, species they picked are small so they wouldn’t block the pedestrian street) and well maintained (since it’s government owned so they have gardeners trim the parks quite often; NPARKS)
major differences between novel projects like green roofs and conventional parks: 1. Feel closer to nature with novel projects like vertical gardens, more immersive, don’t have to go all the way to a conventional park (e.g. if you go to a shopping mall and the mall has vertical gardening, and you get to shop and enjoy natures), no need to be close to nature intentionally, bcs nature is there
any expectations that haven’t been met by the urban greening projects: Government don’t really ask for people’s opinions, they didn’t ask what kind of design or plants they want in the rooftop gardens, they just built it; wish people can have more say in it, but since they are doing such a good job with the gardens she is basically satisfied