What makes a city a good city? Having fantastic iconic building lining up along the street? Or having various designs of skyscrapers giving the identity of the city? I started to question myself. If a city with all these fantastic building is a good city, how about those cities having their vernacular architecture rather than modern high rise building like in Bali and Tibet? Are they a good or a bad city?

Well, a good city is not determined by the building but the people in the city as what Jan Gehl said. If I have a choice to choose what kind of city I want to live in, I will say I want a city which is friendly to people.

First of all, I hope the city will have less traffic jam and pollution. According to Jan Gehl, to reduce the car traffic in the city, we can try to reduce the access road and increase the pedestrian road and cycling path. Yes, it is absolutely right but it cannot apply to tropical country because no one would like to cycle under the hot sun and sweating throughout the way to the working place. I think the Singapore government did a good job in handling this issue whereby they limit the car going into the city and supply a good public transport network for the people. I was told by a few friends from Singapore that it is not a problem for them to not own a car in Singapore because it is so convenient with the public transport.