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9780415299817

Beyond Description: Singapore Space Historicity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415299817

  • ISBN10:

    0415299810

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-08-06
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions about global urbanism, postcolonialism, and architectural theory while producing challenging new ideas from a variety of disciplines concerned with how space, historicity, architecture and textuality inform one another. This singular focus is treated from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Contributors include experts in literary and cultural criticism, critical theory, cultural anthropology, history, sociology, economics, architecture and philosophy.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii
Notes on contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Beyond Description: Singapore Space Historicity
1(16)
Ryan Bishop
John Phillips
Wei-Wei Yeo
Of Trees and the Heartland: Singapore's Narratives
17(13)
Wei-Wei Yeo
Toward a Spatial History of Emergency: Notes from Singapore
30(30)
Gregory Clancey
``The Vertical Order has Come to an End'': The Insignia of the Military C3I and Urbanism in Global Networks
60(19)
Ryan Bishop
At Home in the Worlds: Community and Consumption in Urban Singapore
79(16)
Philip Holden
Evangelical Economies and Abjected Spaces: Cultural Territorialisation in Singapore
95(17)
Robbie B. H. Goh
Singapore: A Skyline of Pragmatism
112(13)
Kwek Mean Luck
The Axis of Singapore: South Bridge Road
125(10)
Robert Powell
Modernist Urbanism and its Revitalization
135(11)
William S. W. Lim
Post-Functionalist Urbanism, The Postmodern and Singapore
146(19)
Heinz Paetzold
The Tropical City: Slippages in the Midst of Ideological Construction
165(11)
Wong Chong Thai Bobby
Intelligent Island, Baroque Ecology
176(14)
Aihwa Ong
As the Wind Blows and Dew Came Down: Ghost Stories and Collective Memory in Singapore
190(14)
Carole Faucher
Urban New Archiving
204(18)
John Phillips
Index 222

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