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Format: 1 online resource (310 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9789048544004 (ebook)

Series Statement: Asian cities ; 13

Content: 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.

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Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9789463729505

Language: English

URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048544004/type/BOOK

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Format: 1 online resource (302 p.)

ISBN: 9789048544004

Series Statement: Asian Cities

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Table of Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , Introduction -- , 1 Singapore Songlines Revisited -- , 2 On the Banning of a Film -- , 3 The City State of Singapore’s Territorial and Social Management Dilemmas -- , 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 -- , 8 Place Management/Making -- , 9 Conviviality in Clementi -- , 10 Mediating Community in Bukit Brown -- , 11 Collaborative Imaginaries -- , 12 The Invisible Electorate -- , Conclusion -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9789048544004

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544004

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048544004