TY  - BOOK
AU  - Choy Lee,Weng
AU  - Chung,Simone Shu-Yeng
AU  - De Koninck,Rodolphe
AU  - Douglass,Mike
AU  - Ferzacca,Steve
AU  - Frost,Mark R.
AU  - Hui Ching,Emily Chua
AU  - Khiun,Liew Kai
AU  - Khoo,Olivia
AU  - Kong,Gideon
AU  - Leong,Goh Wei
AU  - Ng,Huiying
AU  - Pang,Natalie
AU  - Su Fern,Hoe
AU  - Teck Seng,Chow
AU  - Yeo,Jamie
TI  - The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore
T2  - Asian Cities
SN  - 9789048544004
U1  - 307.76095957 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Singapore
KW  - City planning
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Contemporary Society
KW  - Sociology and Social History
KW  - South East Asia
KW  - Urban Cultures
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Singapore State-civil society relations Urban culture Place-making Human agency
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544004?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048544004
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048544004/original
ER  -