To continue to attract businesses and improve the livelihood of our people, we are building a new Downtown District for intelligent office buildings of the 21st century. To make Singapore a lively and vibrant city, we have exciting plans to create an Entertainment District along the lines of London's Piccadilly Circus and New York's Broadway. The aim is to inject a wide variety of entertainment to bring out the vibrancy of the city and its people. There are now various arts centres and museums, modern cafes, and a large number of cineplexes and shopping malls. We will create more urban spaces for people to mingle, develop more arts and cultural centres, and build new recreational places.
Urban designers play a critical role in making a city lovely and beautiful.
Urban design elements help to create lasting impressions of a city. In Singapore, we have created a distinctive skyline with a mix of old and new buildings. Like many cities in the world, we have taken pains to restore and conserve our building heritage to give a distinctive Singapore flavour to our cityscape. We are continuously incorporating interesting urban design elements in our city planning, such as plazas, walkways, promenades, and urban art and decorations like sculptures and fountains. Although our lush environment has earned Singapore the reputation of a Garden City, we are continuously exploring new plant species and new ways of sprucing up our greenery.