Singapore's River, a Living Legacy
Author: Linda Berry
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9789971711672
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Planning Singapore
Author: Belinda K. P. Yuen
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9810405731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book attempts to revisit Singapore's urban experience since her independence three decades ago, and unfold the planning and development process behind its successful urban transformation. Topics covered by the chapters include: visionary planning; local planning; IT in planning practice; planning industrial estate development; urban conservation; recreation planning; and planning urban transportation.
Singapore's River, a Living Legacy
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Our Singapore River
Author: Tina Sim
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2023-02-09
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9811259062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Travel back in time to the Singapore River!Aloysius and his Grandpa spend a day on the Singapore River in olden day Singapore. As Aloysius is introduced to the ships, the bumboats, the boatmen, the coolies and the warehouses, he realises how awesome life on the river was — how busy, noisy, dirty, and smelly too! — and the very vital role it played in Singapore's early days as a port settlement.Travel into Singapore's past with the Time Travel, Singapore! series. The series showcases the people, places, practices, foods, arts, events and so much more that were an integral part of people's lives then.
The River That Brings Us Life
Author: Sarah Ang
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9811254249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There was once a vibrant river that flowed through the heart of Singapore. The river brought life and joy to everyone, but when people began to mistreat it, it lost its sparkle.Journey through the true story of the Singapore River, and discover how the river gained its sparkle back once again.This book is supported by a grant from the National Heritage Board.
Singapore River
Author: Stephen Dobbs
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9971697386
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepot trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid waterway that forms the centrepiece of Singapore's financial, civic and entertainment districts. This transformation symbolizes the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st century.Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of this waterway, and of the people who made it their home and workplace. He describes the tidal swamp in the early days of the British settlement, where merchants ignored Raffles much-vaunted city plan and built their businesses on the limited high ground along the marshy riverbanks.Later, even as the long distance shipping moved to new port facilities elsewhere on the island, the river remained the base for a large regional trade, and boatmen and businessmen struggled to cope with silting, over-crowding, and bridges that were too low to be passed at high tide.Looking at the post-war years, Dobbs zeros in on the boatmen who carried goods between the "e;godowns"e; or warehouses along the river and the freighters lying at anchor in the roads. Despite its pollution, the river remained home to a vital community of coolies and tally clerks, and the tumultuous urban life that swirled around them.Today the waterfront community has been relocated. The shophouses and warehouses along the river are now chic cafes and upmarket restaurants, fish have returned to the Singapore River, and urban dwellers stroll on walks along the river's edge.Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Singapore's many transformations during the past two centuries.
Historical Dictionary of Singapore
Author: Justin Corfield
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010-12-02
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780810873872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Historical Dictionary of Singapore relates this history of this country through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Singapore history from the earliest times to the present.
Singapore 1819
Author: Kennie Ting
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789811185731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text
Author: Robbie B H Goh
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2003-05-20
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9814486590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of other discourses. In addition it also analyzes the experiences of modernization in such cities, but also in terms of the strategies of containment, refurbishment, and loss which this has occasioned. Contents:Urbanism and Post-Colonial Nationalities: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City (R B H Goh & B S A Yeoh)Reading the Southeast Asian City in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth (K S Tay & R B H Goh)“The Rise of the Merlion”: Monument and Myth in the Making of the Singapore Story (B S A Yeoh & T C Chang)Things to a Void: Utopian Discourse, Communality and Constructed Interstices in Singapore Public Housing (R B H Goh)Selective Disclosure: Romancing the Singapore River (S Huang & T C Chang)Malaysia's High-Tech Cities and the Construction of Intelligent Citizenship (T Bunnell)Museum/City/Nation: Negotiating Identities in Urban Museums in Indonesia and Singapore (K M Adams)The Urban and the Urbane: Modernization, Modernism and the Rebirth of Singaporean Cinema (A R Guneratne)Benjamin in Bombay? An Asian Extrapolation (R Patke) Readership: Undergraduates, graduate students, academics and professionals in architecture and urban planning. Keywords:Urban Studies;Southeast Asian Cities;Society and Culture;Literature;MediaReviews:“… there is much of value in the book both theoretically and empirically and it certainly deserves a readership beyond those interested in South-east Asia … this edited collection provides a good illustration of the benefits of taking the cultural turn, interpreting texts very broadly to cover anything from the built environment through museums and films as cultural artifacts to the role of the flâneur in construing rather than constructing the city.”Urban Studies
