UNESCO World Heritage Site for Singapore!

"I have visited a few hundred WHS round the world and am convinced that certain sites in Singapore deserve to be listed, for they do posses what UNESCO calls sites with “outstanding universal value”...

Tiong Bahru is an outstanding example of post-modern urban planning and public housing project. Bukit Timah and Sungai Buloh are the best example of a well-preserved tropical rain forest next to a metropolis – this hardly exists anywhere else in the world – and Bukit Timah had been acclaimed by renowned naturalist Alfred Wallace as a site with unrivalled biodiversity."


Someone's comment:

"Initially I was thinking that the Island Nation of Singapore would be suitable as a UNESCO site, it being quite a marvel of social and economic engineering."

Mine: This is hilarious.

I agree that not all sites deserve to be on the list, but that's no reason to debase it further by adding to it.

In any case, if Singapore had ever been a World Heritage site it'd have been put on the Danger list long ago due to rampant and thoughtless destruction of our natural and historical heritage and then delisted like Oman's Arabian Oryx Sanctuary.

Seeing how much of Bukit Timah had been destroyed (with a telecoms tower planted smack in the middle of it and some of the rest turned into what is essentially a public park), Alfred Wallace would spin so fast in his grave, he'd open a wormhole back to the 19th century.