Contesting space in colonial Singapore : power relations and the urban built environment /

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In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issues. As the city expanded, disputes arose in connection with sanitation, housing, street names, control over pedestrian 'five-foot-ways', and sacred spaces such as burial groun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yeoh, Brenda S. A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : NUS Press, National University of Singapore, 2013.
Colección:Singapore, studies in society & history.
Temas:
Chinese > Singapore.
Social ecology > Singapore.
Colonial cities > Singapore.
City planning > Singapore.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Singapore.
Chinois > Singapour.
Écologie sociale > Singapour.
Villes coloniales > Singapour.
Écologie urbaine > Singapour.
HISTORY > Asia > Southeast Asia.
Chinese.
City planning.
Colonial cities.
Social ecology.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Singapore.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Note on Chinese names and terms
  • Power relations and the built environment in colonial cities
  • Establishing an institution of control over the urban built environment : the municipal authority of Singapore, 1819-1930
  • Municipal sanitary surveillance, Asian resistance, and the control of the urban environment
  • Shaping the built form of the city : from the regulation of house form to urban planning
  • Municipal versus Asian utilities systems : urban water supply and sewage disposal
  • The naming and signification of urban space : municipal versus Asian street-names and place-names
  • The control of 'public' space : conflicts over the definition and use of the verandah
  • The control of 'sacred' space : conflicts over the Chinese burial grounds
  • Conclusion : the politics of space in colonial Singapore.

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