Nationalité : Irlande
Né(e) à : Dublin , le 01/01/1968
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Dr Gregory Byrne Bracken was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1968. He is currently a Fellow of International Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He attained his Ph.D. from the Architecture Theory Department of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2009, which is where he also received an M.Sc. in Architecture (with a specialisation in Urbanism) in 2004 (graduating cum laude).
Dr Bracken has practised as an architect in London, Paris and Berlin as well as Bangkok and Singapore.
He is married and lives in Amsterdam.
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles planned the original town of Singapore along racial lines, with different areas for the respective races. This plan is still in evidence today with areas like Chinatown, Little India and Kampong Gelam.
It is easy to travel around the city as the public transport network is excellent, with the added advantage that buses and the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) are cheap and efficient.