Fieldtrip to URA

3rd fieldtrip was to Urban Redevelopment Authority, where the group-in-charge wanted us to explore the topic on urban development. It was the typical boring fieldtrip - could only walk around an area, look at the exhibits, gather information and fill in worksheets.

The only interesting thing was the extensive model of the Singapore city landscape which left me mesmerized and struggling to identify the prominent buildings featured.

Marina area (the white vacant plots reserved for the upcoming IR and further reclamation)

After the fieldtrip, the kind URA people thanked us for our visit and gave us each a thick heavy (weighing nearly 1kg, I think) hardcover URA coffeetable book, detailing development and refurbishment plans for various buildings and sites like Suntec, Liang Court and Parkway Parade. We were delighted with the free gift, thinking that now with this book, we were at the forefront of urban development (read: luxurious condominiums) in Singapore. Until I realised something was wrong - pictures of Suntec were sketch pictures, not photographs. Puzzled, I flipped to the second page and found out that this was printed in 1995.

I think it can fetch me a decent sum from the karang guni man.