This presentation seeks to provide a quick run through of the information and issues concerning Bukit Brown Cemetery

1. Bukit Brown
Cemetery:
Dead
Spaces?
DR LIEW KAI KHIUN

2. Fast Facts on Bukit Brown
• 211 Acre between
Lornie Road and Pan
Island Expressway
• Legally owned by
George Henry Brown
before being purchased
by Ong Clan in 1880s.
• 1922: Established as
government municipal
cemetery
• Estimated 100,000
graves till date
• Parts of Cemetery were
cut for golf courses and
road development.
• 2013: Road extension
into heart of cemetery

3. Part of the Marina
Drainage Basin

4. Nature Corridor
• Stopover point for migratory
birds
• Established wildlife and plant
species
• Green lungs for Thomson-
MacRitche Area.
Chestnut Malkoha

6. History and Historical Personalities in Bukit Brown Cemetery

7. Design of tombstones

9. Decorations, Statues and design of
embellishment of Graves

10. Mapping Bukit Brown
• Grave
Identification
• Socio-cultural
Documentation
• Geological,
Botanical and
Zoological
Surveys

11. Bukit Brown: Nature,
Culture, History, Park.

12. “Development” Plans for Bukit Brown
Cemetery

14. Questions
• How to balance development and
conservation?
• How to weigh the intangibles of heritage
against the tangible of GDP?
• What sort of Singapore do we want?

15. BUKIT BROWN as World Heritage?
Bukit Brown Cemetery Okunoin Gobyo Cemetery, Mt. Koya,
Japan (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

16. The End