Bukit brown Cemetery Basic Information
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Bukit Brown Cemetery:
Dead Spaces?
DR LIEW KAI KHIUN
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Fast Facts on Bukit Brown
• 211 Acre between Lornie Road and Pan Island Expressway
• Legally owned by George Henry Brown before being purchased by Ong Clan in 1880s.
• 1922: Established as government municipal cemetery
• Estimated 100,000 graves till date
• Parts of Cemetery were cut for golf courses and road development.
• 2013: Road extension into heart of cemetery
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Part of the Marina Drainage Basin
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Nature Corridor
• Stopover point for migratory birds
• Established wildlife and plant species
• Green lungs for Thomson-MacRitche Area.
Chestnut Malkoha
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History and Historical Personalities in Bukit Brown Cemetery
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Design of tombstones
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Decorations, Statues and design of embellishment of Graves
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Mapping Bukit Brown
• Grave Identification• Socio-cultural
Documentation • Geological,
Botanical and Zoological Surveys
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Bukit Brown: Nature, Culture, History, Park.
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“Development” Plans for Bukit Brown Cemetery
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Questions
• How to balance development and conservation?
• How to weigh the intangibles of heritage against the tangible of GDP?
• What sort of Singapore do we want?
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BUKIT BROWN as World Heritage?
Bukit Brown Cemetery Okunoin Gobyo Cemetery, Mt. Koya, Japan (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
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