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My Perfect City: Mental health in Singapore

People who live in cities are more likely to experience mental health problems than their rural counterparts. Has Singapore found a solution that other cities should follow?

People who live in cities are more likely to experience mental health problems than their rural counterparts. Has Singapore found a solution to improving its citizens鈥 wellbeing that other cities should follow?

Greening urban areas, creating therapeutic gardens and high amenity public spaces, encouraging physical exercise as well as housing security and social services aim to reduce rates of common disorders such as OCD, anxiety and depression.

Fi Glover and panellists Dr Ellie Cosgrave, director of the UCL Urban Laboratory, and urbanist Abha Joshi Ghani test the credentials of Singapore鈥檚 initiatives. Is it a mental health blueprint for our imagined urban utopia?

The team also consider Dubai鈥檚 ambition to be the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 happiest city鈥.

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27 minutes

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Sun 3 Jan 2021 11:32GMT

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Singapore鈥檚 Supertree Grove (Credit: Duy Nguyen/Unsplash)

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