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Geography Assignment on Built Environment

Lim Xin Er

Updated July 14, 2016

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Interviewing Mrs An, her mother and her two children

Interviewing Mr Nair

I walk around and exercise alone 5 days a weeek. I like this park very much and I would rate it an 8 from 1 to 10. I hope that there will be more exercise stations.

Interviewing Mr Oh Wang Liang (Park Cleaner)

Interviewing a 50-year-old grandma

Interviewing Mr Albert Poon

I work here everyday from 7.30am to 5pm. My job is to clean leaves. I hope that people don't throw litter too much and I think people are very inconsiderate.

It's my first time here and we just discovered this place. We are here to exercise and my children can play around at the playground. We spent 3 hours here bonding as a family. From 1 to 10, I will rate this park 9 as I think it's really nice here. Besides this park, I will prefer to go Zoo, Botanic Gardens and Sentosa as a family.

At 7.30am, I exercise, do taiqi and many other things. The other side of the park is hotter because there are fewer trees there so I don't go there.

Observation

Interviewing a group of 6 old people exercising

I'm exercising here for 1 to 1 and a half hours. I stay nearby and I exercise alone as my children were all grown up and had their own families. It's quite quiet now but it's very crowded in the morning. Actually, the exercise stations were too crowded and the park is too small so from the rate of 1 to 10 I will rate here as 6. Other than this park, I will also go to the reservoir beside Khoo Teck Puat Hospital to exercise.

There are 5 Chinese and 1 Indian, with a teacher at the front as she patiently leads them

Although we are old, we persevere to exercise everyday. Our teacher teaches us some movements. The harder the movements, the fewer the number of people who come. Tomorrow, the movements are easier so more people will come.

Interviewing an Indian student

I run here twice a week, sometimes with family. It helps me feel fresh. I think the park looks good and doesn't need improvements.

Observation

520m²
The courtyard is most often used at 7pm.
Yes, it was renovated. There isn't a stage before renovation.
The residents living around are using this courtyard.
It's convenient for the residents to rest and the courtyard is big enough to host many people when there's events. No. there is no alternative.
The people come a few times a week but there's not many.
People can read newspapers, dance, organise community activities there.

Interviewing a Malaysian woman in her forties with her husband

We came here to exercise. The air here is fresh because it is on high ground. When we come to Singapore, we will come here, partly because my sister lives around here. This park is great, if I live in Singapore I will come here everyday.

Interviewing

Mr Lim Chao Zhi

Interviewing Mr Wang

I come here to exercise

and make friends 3 times

a month at 7.30am. From

1 to 10, I would rate this place

Early History

I come here a few times a week alone at 8.30am to run and excercise. From a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate this place an 8. I think something can be built on the empty space in the middle of a park.

63000m²
The park is most often used at 6.30am and 6pm.
Yes, it was renovated. It was a cemetery before.
The residents living around are using this park.
It's convenient for the residents to exercise. They can also go to the reservoir beside Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.
The people come a few times a week.
Exercising using the exercise corner, playing in the playground, jogging and flying kite can be carried out here.
Some activities are organised here on special dates.

9 as I like that it is on a hill. I hope that the government doesn't renovate or demolish this park because carbon dioxide from the cars will not travel up as the park is on a hill.

The growth of the estates under Nee Soon's ownership started when as a young man of 24, Nee Soon bought land from the government around the Seletar River for cultivation.
Before the arrival of rubber, in the middle of the 19th century, the area around the Seletar River was a flourishing gambier and pepper stronghold. These crops declined at the end of the 19th century, to be replaced by rubber.
At the peak of Nee Soon's career, his rubber estates covered many different areas. Nee Soon district developed into an extended settlement as Chinese immigrants were hired to become labourers in the rubber plantations. They then settled down forming villages, paying a token amount for the land they rented from Nee Soon.

Development

Origin of Name

Yishun has started the development of HDB flats since 1976, with the first HDB flats at Chong Pang.
Yishun Neighbourhood 1--developed since 1981
Followed by Neighbourhood 7 and Neighbourhood 2
Neighbourhood 6, 8 and 9--developed in 1987, (together with the Town Centre)
Neighbourhood 3 and 4--later in 1992.
Construction of the Neighbourhood 5--completed in 2015(after the Crossrail West was announced)
There are numerous schools, markets, religious buildings, community buildings, shopping and recreational facilities within easy reach.

Yishun, also known as Yishun New Town or Yishun Town, and formerly known as Nee Soon, is a planning area and residential town located in the north-eastern corner of the North Region of Singapore.
The name "Yishun" is a Mandarin romanisation of Nee Soon, named after Lim Nee Soon, a prominent industrialist who made his fortune from rubber and pineapples.

Courtyard

Park on hill

Interviewing Ms Vasan

I'm here to exercise and brisk walk. I come here after 6.30pm daily for about 45 minutes. However, I will come to this park at 6pm during weekends. Initially, this park was very good but it's getting more crowded now. I stay around here so it's convenient for me to come here to exercise. I will also visit other parks but they are too far away.

During Hari Raya

History Of Yishun

Steet Map

Playground

My house

Basketball Court