The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore /

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

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,...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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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

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