The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore / / ed. by Mike Douglass, Simone Shu-Yeng Chung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Choy Lee, Weng,; Chung, Simone Shu-Yeng,; De Koninck, Rodolphe,; Douglass, Mike,; Ferzacca, Steve,; Frost, Mark R.,; Hui Ching, Emily Chua,; Khiun, Liew Kai,; Khoo, Olivia,; Kong, Gideon,; Leong, Goh Wei,; Ng, Huiying,; Pang, Natalie,; Su Fern, Hoe,; Teck Seng, Chow,; Yeo, Jamie,
• HerausgeberIn: Chung, Simone Shu-Yeng,; Douglass, Mike,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Cities ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, the volume explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and the conceptualised space engineered into material form by bureaucrats, experts and commercial interests, a perceptual layer of space is conjured out of people's everyday life experiences. While such imaginative projections may not be as tangible as its functional designations, they are nonetheless equally vital and palpable. The richness of its inhabitants' memories, aspirations and meaningful interpretations challenges the reduction of Singapore as a Generic City. Taking the imaginative field as the point of departure, the forms and modes of intellectual and creative articulations of Singapore's urban condition probe the resilience of cities, and the people who reside in them, through the images they convey or evoke as a means for collective expressions of human agency in placemaking.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. (De)-Constructing Master Narratives of the City -- 1 Singapore Songlines Revisited -- 2 On the Banning of a Film -- 3 The City State of Singapore's Territorial and Social Management Dilemmas -- Part II. The Arts as Prisms of the Urban Imaginative -- 4. The Address of Art and the Scale of Other Places -- 5 Forming Cityscapes -- 6 The Sinophone as Lyrical Aesthetics Redefined -- 7 Noisy Places, Noisy People -- Part III. The City Possible in Action -- 8 Place Management/Making -- 9 Conviviality in Clementi -- 10 Mediating Community in Bukit Brown -- 11 Collaborative Imaginaries -- 12 The Invisible Electorate -- Conclusion -- Index