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Miro Roman
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Voditelj intervjua: NajveCi izum ovog stoljeca je... ?
Lee Kuan Yew: Klima uredaj, za mene. (Kuan Yew, 2008.)
Interviewer: The greatl!st invention of this century must be... ?
Lee Kuan Yew: The air-conditioner, for me. (Kuan Yew, 2008)
, U Singapuru jednostavno sve funkcionira. Klimatizacijski
uredaj hladi, vlakovi dolaze na vrijeme, ulice su uvijek Ciste,
kisa pada uvijek u s poslije podne, lica su nasmijana, nezaposlenost je 2 %. Sve funkcionira, svi su sretni. Prosjecna vanjska temperatura je 32 stupnja, dok je unutarnja 22 stupnja.
Prostitucija je legalna. Pornografija nije, kao ni zvakace gume.
U Si11yapuru koegzistiraju budizam, islam, krscanstvo. taoizam, hiduizam, Kinezi, Malajci, lndijci i sve vise zapadnjaka.
Lako je pomisliti da je rijec o melting potu, fuzijskoj kuhinji.
no u Singapuru se stanovnistvo ne mije5a, bas kao sto se ne
, In Singapore, everything simply works. Air-conditioners cool,
trains arrive on time, streets are always clean, rain always falls at
s p.m., everybody has a smile on their faces, and unemployment
is 2 per cent. Everything works, everyone is happy. The average outdoor temperature is 32 degrees Celsius, while the room
temperature is 22. Prostitution is legal. Pornography is not, and
neither are chewing gums. In Singapore, Buddhism coexists with
Islam, Christianity, Taoism, Hinduism, the Chinese with the
Malay, the Indian, and more and more westerners. It is easy to
think that it is a melting pot, a fusion cuisine. but in Singapore.
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mijesaju sastojci u etnickim kuhinjama. Omjeri i brojevi uvijek
moraju biti poznati. Tu su pravila i zakoni koji kroje najsitnije
detalje ljudskih djelatnosti. To je drustvo koje funkcionira vise
kao molekularna kuhinja negoli fuzija. Diskurs koji bi sam
grad preuzeo opisujuCi sebe vjerojatno bi bio onaj cinjenicni,
poduprt statistikama, metodama sistematizacije, abrade i
primjene podataka pod parolom: Zato sto vjerujemo u statistiku. , Kako prieati o gradu koji se razvio u posljednjih so
godina? Koji je postojao kao ribarsko selo, kao kompung, kao
mocvara, kao priroda, polje i trgovacka Iuka? On je utjelovljenje ekonomskog napretka, azijski tigar, ostvarenje 50-godisnje vladavi ne Leeja Kuana Yewa. Tu je izuzetno otvoreno i
potpuno nekorumpirono trziste stabilnih cijena is jednim od
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the population does not mix, just as they do not mix the ingredients in their ethnic cuisines. Ratios and numbers must always
be familiar. There are rules and laws that tailor even the smallest
details of human activity. It is a society that works more like a
molecular than a fusion cuisine. Adiscourse the city itself would
adopt in describing itself would probably be the one of a fact,
supported by statistics, methods of systematization, processing
and application of data under the banner because we believe
in statistics. , How to talk about a city that has developed in
the last fifty years? A city which existed as a fishing village, a
kampung, a swamp, nature, a field and a commercial port? It
is the embodiment of economic progress, the Asian Tiger. the
achievement of the fifty-year rule of ~ee Kuan Yew. Here we
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najvisih BOP-a u svijetu. Singapur je zeleni ekoloski odrzivi
pametni grad - sto god to znacilo.
GRAD VA MA NA USLUZ I , Uzivajte u svom boravku! Znak
dobrodoslice zraene luke Changi ~ Zasto dolaziti u Trgoviste,
pitao sam se. I vec pozeljeh otiCi. 'Mozete nastaviti let kad
gad pazelite'. rekli su mi, •ali stiCi cete u jos jedno Trgoviste,
apsolutno jednako, do posljednje pojedinosti. Svijet prekriva
jedno jedino Trgoviste koje niti paCinje niti zavr5ava. Mijenja
se samo ime zracne Juke.' (Calvino, 1972.) , Stvoren je grad
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have an extremely open and totally uncorrupt market with price
stability and one of the highest cops in the world. Singapore
is a green eco sustainable smart city-whatever that means.
Enjoy your stay! Changi Airport
welcome sign , Why come to Trade Iasked myself And I already
wanted to leave. 'You can resume your ~ight whenever you like;
they said to me, 'but you will arrive at another Trade, absolutely
the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trade
THE CITY AT YOU R SERVICE. ,
... Jurong West, javna stanogradnja poznatija pod imenom
HOB u kojoj zivi oko 80% stanovn1!tva
<4 jurong West. public housing better known as HDB which
houses around 80% of the population
u kojem se eovjek konaeno vise ne mora prilagodavati onim
nezgodnim stvarima dok putuje: novom mjestu, novoj kulturi
iii jeziku - stvoren je grad koji ce se u potpunosti prilagoditi
vasim potrebama. Grad vama i nama na usluzi - Singapur.
Singapur utjelovljuje mjesto koje ne tezi biti stalno i trajno,
nego jednostavno, lijepo i efikasno. l<ada bi Calvinov Marco
Polo stigao u grad Singapur, onda bi zasigurno prosetao
Bayfrontorn koji bi ga impresionirao slicnoscu s manhattanskim skylineom, sjeo bi na Singapore flyer koji je raden prema
The London Eyeu, obavio kupnju na Orchardu koji je projektiran prema Oxford Streetu, kupio suvenire Marie in China
u Chinatownu, jeo indijsku hranu u Little lndiji, pusio sisu u
Arab Streetu i zavrsio dan u lmax 30 kinu gledajuei novi LEGO
film ... , l<ako izgleda simbol grada koji je postao neka vrsta
which does not begin and does not end. Only the name of the
airport changes. (Calvino, 1972) , A city is created where man
finally no longer has to adapt to those awkward things while
traveling: a new place, culture or language-a city is created
that adapts to your needs completely. Acity at service to you
and to us-Singapore. Singapore embodies a place that does
not aspire to be continual, permanent, rather simple, beautiful
and effective. Had Calvino's Marco Polo arrived in Singapore,
he would have certainly taken a stroll along Bayfront whose
similarity with the Manhattan skyline would have impressed
him; he would have sat on the Singapore Flyer, designed after
the model of the London Eye, done his shoi;ping at Orchard,
modeled after Oxford Street, bought Made-in-China souvenirs
in Chinatown, eaten Indian food in Little India, smoked shisha in
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generickog kolafa, azijska varijanta ozbiljnog Las Vegasa? To
vise nije simbol vezan uz specificni dogadaj, kao sto ih utjelovljuju l<ip slobode, egipatske piramide, Eiffelov toranj iii,
primjerice, World Trade Center. l<ada u Google upisete Singapur, prva slika koja se pojavi je hotel. Hotel Marina Bay Sands
srediste je nove ideologije grada - ona sugerira temporalnost
mjesta u kojem je glavna instanca putnik namjernik, onaj koji
dolazi vidjeti, uloziti, potrositi, otici. Nemjesto hotela, kako
ga vidi Marc Auge, postaje nositelj identiteta i si mbol generickog; genericko postaje brand.
100 % KON TRO LI RANO, 100 % OPT IM I ZI RANO, 100 % DIZAJNIRANO ., Vjerujemo da, kad gradimo gradevine, tak?aer
gradimo i ljude. CapitaLand ., Sve denivelacije su poravnate,
tropska vegetacija je ukrocena, svaka travka je na svom mjestu: to je grad bez insekata, pri roda je samo u vrtovima nekada je to mediteranski vrt u stakleniku, a nekada tropska
prasuma u vrtu. To je otok, drfava, grad i korporacija. To je
Smart City. I sve raste, sve je vece i sve bolje i sve efikasnije.
Citava obala zapravo je dizajnirana Iuka koja funkcionira kao
taktilna zona koja se brodovima i zrakoplovima veze na globalnu mrel.u. U zadnjih 40 godina otok je narastao za jednu
cetvrtinu, populacija Se povecala 4 puta, infrastrukture SU
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Arab Street, and ended his day at the lmax 30 theater, watching the new LEGO Movie... ., What does the symbol of the city
look like, the city that has become a kind of generic collage,
an Asian version of a sober Las Vegas? It is no longer a symbol
associated with a specific event, as is the case with the Statue of
Liberty, the Egyptian pyramids, the Eiffel Tower or, for example,
the World Trade Center. If you type Singapore into Google, the
first image that appears is a hotel. The Marina Bay Sands Hotel
is the heart of the new city ideology -it suggests the temporality of the place where the main instance is the traveler, the
one who comes to see, to invest, to spend, to go away. Instead
of the non-place of the hotel- as perceived by Marc Auge-it
becomes an identity carrier and a symbol of the generic; the
generic becomes a brand.
CENT DESIGNED ., We believe that when we build buildings, we
build people too. CapitaLand ., All grade separations are aligned,
tropical vegetation is tamed, and every leaf of grass is in its
place. It is a city without insects; nature is only in gardens. sometimes it is a Mediterranean garden in a greenhouse, sometimes
a tropical rainforest in a garden. It is an island, a state, a city,
and a corporation. It is a Smart City. And everything is growing,
izgradene, BDP kontinuirano raste, vlada je stabilna. Sto jos
maze biti izgradeno, koliko teritorija moze biti nadodano, sto
jos maze biti sruseno i ponovno sagradeno? ., Tipieno si ngapursko novo naselje odnekud nam djeluje poznato. Blokovi
identicnih visekatnica smjestenih u grid sa sred isnjim javnim
prostorom, flankirani autocestom, povezanim javnim prometom. Pa to je Vers une Architecture, odveden u beskonafost.
To je savrseni model Le Corbusierove vizije grada, funkc ionalni model koji se odnosi prema stvarnosti l : l ; izgradena
utopija moderne. Grad koji je u stanju svoj grad ski centar, bez
poteskoca, transformirati u poligon Formule l na samo jedno
poslijepodne. Grad koji slavi infrastrukturu. On je po naputku:
100 % kontroliran, 100 %optimiziran, loo% dizajniran i lOO %
klimatiziran. Rast i kontrola shvaceni su kao nacio nalni ponos,
jedna od odlika posebnosti, a sklonost k uspjehu trenira se od
malih nogu . ., To je prikazano s ponosom, a ne so sramom. Oni
misle da to nije nikakav zloCin. Mi mislimo da u tome ne moie
biti nikakvog uiitka. (l<oolhaas et al., 1995.) ., No takvo optimizirano efikasno drustvo ima svoju cijenu - u njemu nema
mjesta za diskusiju, ljenearenje. drame. komedije. razmisljanja
i sanjarenja i sve one druge stvari koje rad imo dok nismo efikasni. ZeleCi izbjeci neslaganja i sukobe, manipulira se identitetima kroz dizajnirano uvafavanje specificne kulture, njenog
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everything is bigger, and increasingly better, and more and more .,. Kotejnerski terminal
efficient. The entire coast is actually a designed port that fu nc- Keppel, dio singapurske
luke, druge najvece
tions as a tactile zone, linked to the global networkvia ships and teretne luke na svijetu
planes. In the last 40 years, the island has grown by one quarter,
the population has increased four times, infrastructure is built, '4 KeppelContainer
Terminal, apart of the
the GDP has been growing continuously, and the government is Port of Singapore, the
stable. What else can be built, how much terri tory can be added, 2nd largest cargo port
what else can be demolished and rebuilt?., Atypical new Singa- in the world
pore village somehow looks familiar - blocks of identical multi- (M R)
story buildings, arranged in a grid with a central public space,
nanked by a highway, connected by public transport. Well, it
is Vers une Architecture, taken to infinity. It is a perfect model
of Le Corbusier's vision of the city. a functional model that is
referential to real ity in a 1:1 scale. It is a constructed utopia of
modernism. A city that is capable of transforming its own city
center, without any difficulty, into a Formula 1 street circuitfor a single afternoon. A city that celebrates infrastructure. A
city according to instructions: lOO per cent controlled, 100 per
cent optimized, 100 per cent designed, and 100 per cent airconditioned. Growth and control are seen as national pride, one
of the attributes of their distinctiveness, and the inclination for
success is practiced from an early age. ., It is shown with pride,
not shame. They think there will be no crime. We think there
can be no pleasure. (Koolhaas et al .. 1995) ., But such optimized,
efficient society comes at a price-in it there is no room for
discussion, idleness, drama, comedy, thoughts and dreams, and
all those other things people do while they are not productive.
Wishing to avoid disagreements and conflicts, the identities are
manipulated through a designed appreciation of a specific culture, of its ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Culture and public
practice become a decoration, a commodification. not an open
field for dialogue. At a point where culture becomes too loud.
the economy slows down; Poetry is a luxury we cannot afford.
says Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, the father of the homeland. ., Singapore has not decided on accepting any of the standard types
of government. such as democracy, commun ism, or monarchy; instead it relies on the patterns of corporate policies. The
Government is a brand where every sector is depoliticized; it
is stubbornly insisted only on the politics of profitability and
economic growth. Singapore pushes the limits of th e concept
of state company, placing every society- building segment under
its authority, and governing the city by a corporate logic. Thanks
to the specific situation characterized by the absence of a strong
cultural and historical identity, paired with a 100 per cent contml
over a relatively small area, an ideal ground was prepared for the
creation of Singapore Inc., a brand that creates a simulation in
lieu of society. ., I am o~en accused of interfering in the private
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etnickog i ku lturnog zaleda. Kultura i javne prakse postaju
ukras, komodifikacija, a ne otvoreno polje dijaloga. U trenutku
kada kultu ra postaje preglasna, ekono mija usporava: Poezija je luksuz koji sine mozemo priustiti, kaze otac domovine
Lee Kuan Yew. ~ Singapur se ne odlui'uje preuzeti jedan od
ustaljenih oblika upravljanja poput demokracije, komunizma,
monarhije, vec se oslanja na obrasce korporativnih politika.
Vlada je brand u kojem je svaki sektor depolitiziran, a tvrdoglavo se ustraje samo na politici profitabilnosti i ekonom skog rasta. Singapur pomice gran ice shvaeanja driavne (1rme,
stavljajuci svaki drustvotvorni segment pod svoju qvlast,
up ravljajuci logikom korporacija. Zahvaljujuci specificnoj
si tuaciji nepostojanja jakog kulturno-povijesnog identiteta
i uz stopostotnu kontro lu relativno ma le povrsi ne, pripremljeno je idealno tlo za stvaranje Singapore lnc.-a, branda
koji umjesto drustva stvara simulaciju. ~ Cesto me optuiuju
za uplitanje u privatni zivot gradana. Da, da se ne uplicem, da
se nisam uplitao, mi donas ne bismo bili ovdje. J kazem bez i
najmanje griinje savjesti da mi donas ne bismo bili ovdje, ne
bismo postigli ekonomski napredak da nismo intervenirali u
vr/o osobne stvari - tko vam je susjed, kako zivite, buku koju
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THE GEN ERIC SI NGAPORE ~ Is this your grandfather's road?, Residents' Committee's kind ness movement campaign ~ McLuhan's
global village, Saskia Sassen's global city, Koolhas' generic city
- they all tell a story of a ioo per cent city... It is a continuous
urban space wi th no beginning or end that accumu lates everything: a space of exchange, housing, commerce, communications, transport, prod uction, and consumption. The generic city
is a city of constant change, a place without a defined center.
The topics of the generic are the infrastructure, technology,
systems, control and optimization. All the worlds are becoming
je Ii OVO u/ica vaseg djeda?, kam panja
Pokreta za ljubaznost Odbora stanovnika ~ McLuhanovo globalno selo, global ni grad Saskije Sassen, Koolhasov genericki
grad - svi oni pricaj u prii'u o stopostotnom gradu ... To je
kontinuirani urban i prostor bez pocetka i kraja koji akumuli ra sve: prostor razmjene, stanovanja, trgovine, komunikacije, prometa, pro dukcije i potros nje. Genericki grad je grad
stalne promjene, mjesto bez fiksnog centra. Te rna gene rickog je infrastruktura, teh nologija, sustavi, kontrola, optimizacija. Svi svjetovi pos taju is ti, opokalipso donas personifi cirana je smogom zagadenog metropolisa, djetinstvom na
smetlistima, tornadima. jazom bogatih i siromasnih. dok je
romantika donas predocena globalnom egzotikom prepuni h
trznica, ljud i razlii'itih boja koze, potpuno politicki korektna
i sazdana od ikonickih instag ram-mo menata. U ko nai'n ici,
the same. The apocalypse now is personified in the smog of the
polluted metropolis, a childhood on dumpsites, the tornadoes,
th e gap between the rich and the poor, while th e romance now
is presen ted through the global exotic of crowded markets,
people of differen t colors, totally politically correct, and composed of iconic lnstagram moments. Ultimately, these are the
elements of which we can put togethe r the picture of any city:
New York City, Jakarta, Cairo, Athens, Singapore..., a generic city,
or as McLuhan would say: The new electronic interdependence
recreates the world in the image of a global village. (McLuhan,
1962) ~ The same global vi llage, a generic city, offers another
side to it. Like familiar strangers, everything around us is new,
yet we are not lost. There is a certain beauty in the generic, or
better yet, in the familiarity of the unknown occurring through
globalization. In an unfamiliar country, the infrastruc ture, both
the physical and the digital, becomes something like a universal
language. All roads, paths, trains, shortcuts, spaces- everything is in our pockets. Just like in Star Trek, you have your own
teleporter and you feel safe. The sameness and a set of global
standards managed to create a village of exceedingly dense
population of residents of high longevity and high literacy with
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lives ofcitizens. Yes, if J did not, had J not done that, we wouldn't
be here today. And J say without the slightest remorse, that we
wouldn't be here, we would not hove mode economic progress,
if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your
neighbor is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or
what language you use. We decide what is righ t. Never mind
what the people think. (l<uan Yew, 1987) ~ Or as Gibson wou ld
say for Sing apore, [. .. ] on affluent microcosm whose citizens
inhabit something that feels like, well, Disneyland. Disneyland
with the death penalty. (Gibson, 1993)
stvara te, kako pljujete iii jezik koji koristite. Mi odlucujemo
sto je isprovno. Nema veze sto ljudi misle. (Kuan Yew, i987.)
, Iii kako bi Gibson rekao za Singapur: (. ..) napredan mikrokozmos ciji grodoni nostonjuju nesto poput Disneylondo u
kojem postoji smrtno kozna. (Gibson 1993.)
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grada: New Yo rka, Jakarte, Kaira, Atene, Singapura ... generickog grada, iii kako bi McLuhan rekao: Nova e/ektronicka
meduzavisnost ponovno stvara svijet po uzoru na globalno
selo. (McLuhan 1962.) ., To isto global no selo, genericki grad,
nudi svoju drugu stranu. Poput blis kih stranaca, sve oko nas
je novo, a nismo izg ubljeni. Ima neke ljepote u generickom, iii
bolje, famil ijarnosti nepoznatog koja nastaje uslijed globalizacije. lnfrast ruktu ra, ona fizicka i digital na, u nepoznatoj zemlji
postaje poput univerzalnog jezika. Sve ceste, putevi, vlakovi,
precaci, prostori - sve nam je u dzepu. Bas kao u Zvjezdanim
stazama, posjedujes svoj mali telepo rter i osjecas se sigurno.
lstost i set globalnih normi uspjeli su stvoriti selo neizmjerne
napucenosti stanovnicima dugog zivotnog vijeka i visoke
pismenosti s neogranicenom mogucnosti pristupa znanj u.
Posljedica genericke globalizacije jest metropolis izgubljen u
limbu stalne urbane renovacije zbog koje ce vjeeno izgledati
kao da je izgraden tek prije par dana. Grad koji smo poz_navali
jucer, su tra vise nece postojati. Gdje je moja ulica? (Is this
your grandfather's road?), pitaju se stanovnici Singapura.
To je 100% urbanizam, platforma na kojoj stojimo, ni posve
negativna, niti pozitivna.
T HE PROPO SAL FOR A DIFFERENT READ ING O F THE GENER IC ., A
Sjajan
naein za letenje! Singapore Airlines ., Sta aka svjedoeimo
globalnom pokretu za oslobodenje: dolje karakter' Sto ostaje
kada ogolimo identitet? Nesta genericko? (Koolhaas et al.,
1995.a) ., Koji su nedostaci identiteta, i slijedom, koje su
Great Way to Fly! Singapore Airlines ., What if we are witnessing a global liberation movement: down with character! What
is le~ a~er identity is stripped? The Generic? (l<oolhaas et al.,
1995a) ., What are the disadvantages of identity, and consequently. what are the advantages of the generic, Koolhaas asks.
Perhaps it is the process of homogenization, which. seemingly
prednosti generickog, pita se Koolhaas. Mozdaje upravo proces homogenizacije, koji se naizgled slucajno globalno manifestira, zapravo svjestan korak iz razlicitosti ka slicnosti. Mazda
su identitet i karakter samo maske za prikrivanje generickog.
Mozdaje genericki grad osloboden zatocenistva centralizacije
i jednosmjernosti identiteta. Mazda ga ne treba promatrati
iskljucivo kroz J<oolhaasovu kritiku, vec traziti njegove moguce
artikulacije. Kod generickog je rijec o inverziji povijesti i tradicije. Povijest planiranja postaje planiranje povijesti. Vrijeme
postoji samo u odnosu na buducnost. Ne postoje pravila i
upute za koristenje, samo osobne interpretacije. Granice liksnih kategorija izgubljene su u kontinuiranom gradu. Genericki
grad je grad koji sam sebe uvijek nanovo stvara. Genericki grad
postaje kopija za koju ne postoji original, simulakru m gradskosti digitalnog drustva. Pitanje je kako ocuvati, pronaCi i redefini rati sto je to gradskost unutar konteksta generickog grada?
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MI RO ROMAN, PETRA T OMLJANOVI C.
PRIJED LOG ZA D RU GAC IJE CITAN JE GENER IC KOG .,
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unlimited possibilities of access to knowledge. The consequence
of generic globalization is a metropolis lost in the limbo of permanent urban renovation for which it will forever seem like it
was built just a few days ago. The city we knew yesterday will no
longer exist tomorrow. Where is my street (Is this your grandfather's road?), the Singaporeans wonder. It is the lOO per cent
town planning, the platform on which we stand, neither entirely
negative nor positive.
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accidentally, manifests itself globally, that is in fact a deliberate step from diversity towards similarity. Perhaps identity and
character are only masks concealing the generic. Perhaps the
generic city is freed from the captivity of centralization and the
unidirectionality of identity. Perhaps it should not be viewed
solely through l<oolhaas' critique, but its possible articulations
should be sought. When it comes to the generic, it is about
the inversion of history and tradition. The history of planning
becomes the planning of history. Time exists only in relation
to the future. There are no rules or instructions for use, only
personal interpretations.The limits of fixed categories are lost in
the continuous city. The generic city is a city that reinvents itself.
The generic city becomes a copy of which there is no original, a
sim ulacrum of the townishness of digital society. The question
is how to maintain, find and redefine what townishness actually
is within the context of a generic city?
M IRO ROMAN, PETRA TOMLJAN Ovrc .
Travelogue
Gardens by the Boy,
101 hektar gradskih
parkova
"Gardens by the
Bay. 101 hectare
of urban parks
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