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Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment
Brenda S.A. Yeoh
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Description for Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment
Paperback. In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issues. As the city expanded, various disputes concerning issues such as sanitation, housing and street names arose. This volume details these conflicts and how they shaped the city. Num Pages: 380 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMS; JFSG; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 151 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issue. As the city expanded, disputes arose in connection with sanitation, housing, street names, control over pedestrian 'five-foot-ways', and sacred spaces such as burial grounds. Brenda Yeoh's Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore details these conflicts and how they shaped the city. The British administration structured the private and public environments of the city with an eye toward shaping human behaviour, following scientific principles and the lessons of urban planning in other parts of the world. For the Asian communities, Singapore was the place where ... Read more
In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issue. As the city expanded, disputes arose in connection with sanitation, housing, street names, control over pedestrian 'five-foot-ways', and sacred spaces such as burial grounds. Brenda Yeoh's Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore details these conflicts and how they shaped the city. The British administration structured the private and public environments of the city with an eye toward shaping human behaviour, following scientific principles and the lessons of urban planning in other parts of the world. For the Asian communities, Singapore was the place where ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Singapore University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
380
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971692681
SKU
V9789971692681
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Brenda S.A. Yeoh is Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore, and Co-Principal Investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis at the University's Asia Research Institute.
Reviews for Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment
Historical urban geography at its best!" —Progress in Human Geography "What a splendid book this is!" —Journal of Southeast Asian Studies