Title:
Beyond description : Singapore space historicity
Series:
Architext series
Publication Information:
New Fetter Lane, London : Routledge, 2004
ISBN:
9780415299817
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Library | Item Barcode | Call Number | Material Type | Item Category 1 | Status |
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Searching... | 30000010045657 | NA1530.S55 B49 2004 | Open Access Book | Book | Searching... |
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Summary
Summary
This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions about global urbanism, postcolonialism, and architectural theory while producing challenging new ideas from a variety of disciplines concerned with how space, historicity, architecture and textuality inform one another.
Table of Contents
| 1 Beyond Description: Space Historicity Singapore: Introductory Essay |
| 2 Ghosts, Spectres and the other Presences |
| 3 'The Vertical Order has Come to an End': The Insignia of the Military C3I and Urbanism in Global Networks |
| 4 Emergency and 'The Return to Normal' |
| 5 As the Wind Blows and Dews Came Down: Ghost Stories and Collective Memory in Singapore |
| 6 Evangelical Economies and Abjected Spaces: Cultural Territorialisation in Singapore |
| 7 At Home in the Worlds: Community and Consumption in Urban Singapore |
| 8 The Economic Valuation of Land Space in Singapore and its Impact on the Development of Intangible Assets |
| 9 Urbanism and Postmodernity |
| 10 Inside/Outside Architecture |
| 11 Urban Archives |
| 12 Kampong Bugis Guide Plan: The Tale of Two Movements |
| 13 Natural History and Myth: The Garden City of Singapore |
| 14 Conclusion |
| Index |
