The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore
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The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore

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eBook - ePub

The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore

About this book

With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and conceptualized 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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Yes, you can access The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore by Simone Shu-Yeng Chung,Mike Douglass in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Human Geography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publications
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction The Master Narrative and the Lived City – Half a Century of Imagining Singapore
  10. Part I (De)-Constructing Master Narratives of the City
  11. Part II The Arts as Prisms of the Urban Imaginative
  12. Part III The City Possible in Action
  13. Conclusion
  14. Index