Changing Landscapes Of Singapore

Author : Hamzah Muzaini,Choon-Piew Pow,Harvey Neo,Shirlena Huang,Noorashikin Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahman,Junjia Ye,Karen P.Y. Lai,T.C. Chang,Harng Luh Sin,Pui Leng Woo,Brendan Cheong,Andy Chong,Alvin Kok,Matthew Lam,Tu Guang Tan
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971697723

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Changing Landscapes of Singapore by Hamzah Muzaini,Choon-Piew Pow,Harvey Neo,Shirlena Huang,Noorashikin Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahman,Junjia Ye,Karen P.Y. Lai,T.C. Chang,Harng Luh Sin,Pui Leng Woo,Brendan Cheong,Andy Chong,Alvin Kok,Matthew Lam,Tu Guang Tan Pdf

Changing Landscapes of Singapore illuminates both the social and the physical terrains of modern Singapore. Geographers use the term landscape to refer to visible surfaces and to the spatial dimension of social relations. Landscapes arise from particular historical circumstances, and in turn help shape social arrangements and possible courses of future development. The authors describe how the settings inhabited by various social groups in Singapore affect life experiences, and explore the impact of broader regional and international forces on Singapore. Written for non-specialists, the volume reflects fresh perspectives from the scholarship of Singaporean academics. Their work is sensitive to historical and geographical trends in the region, and also engages with broader theoretical themes.

Author : Peggy Teo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015058808778

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Changing Landscapes of Singapore by Peggy Teo Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Singapore
ISBN : OCLC:220120269

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Singapore, Changing Landscapes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edmund Waller
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789971692384

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Landscape Planning in Singapore by Edmund Waller Pdf

Landscape architecture plays a vital role in creating Singapore's Garden City image. This book helps to explain the Republic's successful implementation of environmental policies since independence to achieve its present-day image. There are ten chapters in the book. The first three cover background information, the historical setting, and the work of the current government. The approach is to evaluate different plans against natural, social, and sensory criteria. The next six chapters are case studies, selected to show landscape planning policies in more detail. The last chapter includes a discussion of comments made about Singapore's landscapes followed by a summary. The book is illustrated by a profusion of maps, diagrams and plans.

Author : Avijit Gupta,John Pitts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015029050831

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Physical Adjustments in a Changing Landscape by Avijit Gupta,John Pitts Pdf

Author : V. Gopalakrishnan,Ananda Perera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Chinatown (Singapore)
ISBN : 9971102722

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Singapore, Changing Landscapes by V. Gopalakrishnan,Ananda Perera Pdf

Author : Bianca Maria Rinaldi,Puay Yok Tan
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035617207

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Urban Landscapes in High-Density Cities by Bianca Maria Rinaldi,Puay Yok Tan Pdf

The positive effects of urban green spaces are well-known, ranging from the promotion of health, support of biodiversity to climate regulation. However, the practical implementation of urban landscapes is less discussed. How can we make these spaces functional, economically feasible and inclusive, especially as cities become more diverse? The publication explores strategies to reconcile the various demands, such as food production, resilience and nature conservation. Indeed, urban landscapes have to be restorative, ecological and aesthetically pleasing at the same time. This is a particular challenge in high-density cities like Singapore, Seoul or New York where space is a scarce commodity. The continuing growth of the worldwide urban population imbues the topic with a special urgency.

Author : Ray Tyers
Publisher : Landmark Books Pte Ltd
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814189873

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Singapore Then and Now by Ray Tyers Pdf

This long-awaited new edition of the classic reference on the changing landscapes of Singapore, which features 156 sites, may be said to have been more than 45 years in the making. Its genesis can be traced to a series of Then & Now articles produced by Ray Tyers for the British Association Beam magazine. Tyers selected 18th- and late-17th-century views of Singapore, stood at the spot where they were photographed or painted and took new images of the sites as they existed in the 1970s. In 1993, Landmark Books updated the book and added the then current views to those documented by Tyers. This 2018 edition continues the record. The result is that most sites now have at least four views taken over time. Some have even up to six pictures showing the dramatic changes that have shaped the built environment of our city state. As architectural historical Dr Lai Chee Kien states in his Introduction to the book: “Singapore Then and Now will continue to have importance and relevance because of the meticulous work that Ray Tyers and the book’s subsequent editors have done over many decades.”

Author : Lily Kong,Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815629613

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The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore by Lily Kong,Brenda S. A. Yeoh Pdf

This thought-provoking book explores strategies employed by Singapore, a multiracial society, to create a Singapore "nation" with an emphasis on the role of landscape. As such, the authors cast keen eye on religious buildings, public housing, heritage landscapes, and street name changes as tangible methods of nation-building in a postcolonial society. The authors illustrate how "nation" and "national identity" are concepts that are negotiated and disputed by varied social, economic, and political groups—some of which may actively resist powerfuI state-centrist attitudes. Throughout this work, the role of the landscape prevails both as a way to naturalize state ideologies and as a means of providing possibilities for reinterpretation in everyday life.

Author : Anoma Pieris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824833541

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Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes by Anoma Pieris Pdf

During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions. A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore’s colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison’s development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments.

Author : Mark McWilliams
Publisher : Oxford Symposium
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909248625

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Food and Landscape: Proceedings of the 2017 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery by Mark McWilliams Pdf

The proceedings of the 2017 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery includes 43 essays by international scholars. The topics included agro-ecology, food sovereignty and economic democracy in the agricultural landscape, argued by Colin Tudge, James Rebanks on family life as a hill-farmer in the Lake District, and many talks that illustrate Catalan historian Joseph Pla's axiom that 'Cuisine is the landscape in a saucepan'.

Author : Jason Lim,Terence Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317331513

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Singapore by Jason Lim,Terence Lee Pdf

On 9 August 2015, Singapore celebrated its 50th year of national independence, a milestone for the nation as it has overcome major economic, social, cultural and political challenges in a short period of time. Whilst this was a celebratory event to acknowledge the role of the People’s Action Party (PAP) government, it was also marked by national remembrance as founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew died in March 2015. This book critically reflects on Singapore’s 50 years of independence. Contributors interrogate a selected range of topics on Singapore’s history, culture and society – including the constitution, education, religion and race – and thereby facilitate a better understanding of its shared national past. Central to this book is an examination of how Singaporeans have learnt to adapt and change through PAP government policies since independence in 1965. All chapters begin their histories from that point in time and each contribution focuses either on an area that has been neglected in Singapore’s modern history or offer new perspectives on the past. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, it presents an independent and critical take on Singapore’s post-1965 history. A valuable assessment to students and researchers alike, Singapore: Negotiating State and Society, 1965-2015 is of interest to specialists in Southeast Asian history and politics.

Author : Rodolphe De Koninck
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814722353

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Singapore's Permanent Territorial Revolution by Rodolphe De Koninck Pdf

Ever since Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, its government has been intent on transforming the island’s environment. This has led to a nearly constant overhaul of the landscape, whether still natural or already manmade. Not only are the shape and dimensions of the main island and its subsidiary ones constantly modified so are their relief and hydrology. No stone is left unturned, literally, and, one could add, nor is a single cultural feature, be it a house, a factory, a road or a cemetery. Given one of Singapore’s unique feature, namely that the state is the sole landlord, all types of property in all parts of the island, rural as well as urban, were and remain subject to expropriation, fortunately always with due compensation. This atlas illustrates, essentially through diachronic mapping of the changing distribution of all forms of land use, the universality of what has become a tool of social management. By constantly “replanning” the rules of access to space, the Singaporean State is thus redefining territoriality, even in its minute details. This is one reason it has been able to consolidate its control over civil society, peacefully and to an extent rarely known in history.

Author : Helen Walkington,Jennifer Hill,Sarah Dyer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788116497

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Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Geography by Helen Walkington,Jennifer Hill,Sarah Dyer Pdf

This exemplary Handbook provides readers with a novel synthesis of international research, evidence-based practice and personal reflections to offer an overview of the current state of knowledge in the field of teaching geography in higher education. Chapters cover the three key transitions – into, through, and out of higher education – to present a thorough analysis of the topic.

Author : Raffaella Sini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811367465

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Singapore’s Park System Master Planning by Raffaella Sini Pdf

This book traces the evolution of Singapore’s parks system, from colonial to present times. Further, it contextualizes the design and planning of parks in the general discourse on western and eastern traditions: early twentieth century western conceptions ‘imported’ during colonialism; modernism; postmodernism, and the contemporary ecological debate. Park system planning products respond to national policies and result in structural urban elements and a range of park types. Global (western ideology) and local issues have influenced park system planning and the physical design of individual parks over time. However, in Singapore the eastern literature has not addressed the development of parks and urban green spaces in terms of historical perspective. The publication reveals the interrelations between visual representations and changing political ideologies. Singapore’s system of public parks is shown to represent an iconography created by the state. Its set of constructed narratives elucidates on the potential social, cultural and environmental roles of public parks. However, Singapore’s park system presents a novel paradigm for expanding Asian cities, characterized by evolving urban imaging strategies. In framing Singapore’s case study within the broader perspective of eastern applications of western planning and design practices, and constructions of nation in post-colonial countries, the manuscript establishes the contribution of the Singaporean model of design and planning of parks to the international debate.