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Constructing Singapore public space

2017

Hee, Limin

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Author/Creator	Hee, Limin
Title	Constructing Singapore public space
Publication Date	2017
Publisher	Singapore: Springer
Call Number	NA9053 Spa.He 2017
Subject	Public spaces -- Singapore City planning -- Singapore Civic improvement -- Singapore -- Case studies Sociology, Urban -- Singapore
Page	xv, 222
Language	English
URI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007%2F978-981-10-2387-3
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	restrictedAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Description	This book presents possible alternatives and interpretations to the well established notion in the mostly western discourse on public space. The discourse on public space as understood in the democratic-rationalist tradition, when applied to the Singaporean public space, would offer much criticism but would not be adequate in identifying alternative processes that allow for transformative potentials in public space. The objectives of this book are: 1. To develop a conceptual frame of reference to construct the discourse on Singapore public space 2. To form a preliminary model of Singapore public space through analyzing case studies 3. To understand the modes, methods of production and representation of these public spaces within the rapidly changing urban context 4. To situate these constructions of public space and its possible trajectories within the larger discourse on public space, and to examine the viability of such a construction and interpretive model of public space

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Constructing the photographic archive of Rochor Centre in tabula rasa Singapore

2021

Lim, Shujuan

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Author/Creator	Lim, Shujuan
Title	Constructing the photographic archive of Rochor Centre in tabula rasa Singapore
Source Title	Photographies
Publication Date	2021
DOI	https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2021.1872684
Subject	Rochor Centre (Singapore) -- Photographs Photograph collections -- Singapore Lost architecture -- Singapore
Page	57-72
Language	English
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	restrictedAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Volume	14
Issue	1
Abstract	What photographs remain once buildings are demolished, and their inhabitants displaced? This paper proposes to construct the photographic archive of a demolished site in Singapore: Rochor Centre. It focuses on the photographs made available on platforms such as publications, exhibitions and Instagram. In indexing and examining the aesthetics and subject matters of these photographs, this paper reflects on the future construction of photographic archives of buildings and urban sites that are in peril of obliteration.

Contemporaneous architecture Singapore

2019

Viray, Erwin

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Author/Creator	Viray, Erwin
Editor	Teng, Joo Chong Tng, Serene Woon, Damien
Title	Contemporaneous architecture Singapore
Publication Date	2019
Publisher	Singapore: Urban Redevelopment Authority
Call Number	NA1530.S5 Con 2019
Subject	Architecture, Modern -- Singapore
Page	312
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Series	Architecture & urban design excellence
Description	The book celebrates 70 architectural projects that have shaped Singapore's landscape in the last 15 years. The selection includes works by renowned home-grown architects and President*s Design Award winners WOHA Architects Pte Ltd, DP Architects Pte Ltd and SCDA Architects Pte Ltd, as well as works from smaller and emerging practices such as Linghao Architects, Chang Architects, ip:li Architects, FARM Architects Pte Ltd, Red Bean Architects and Lekker Architects Pte Ltd.

Contemporary Singapore architecture: 1960s to 1990s

1998

Singapore Institute of Architects
Bay, Philip J. H.
Ang, Choon Kiat
Chen, Peter

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Author/Creator	Singapore Institute of Architects Bay, Philip J. H. Ang, Choon Kiat Chen, Peter
Title	Contemporary Singapore architecture: 1960s to 1990s
Publication Date	1998
Publisher	Singapore : Singapore: Institute of Architects
Call Number	NA1530.12 Cot
Subject	Architecture -- Singapore -- History Architecture -- Singapore
Page	304
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

Contours of culture: space and social difference in Singapore

2005

Goh, Robbie B. H.

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Author/Creator	Goh, Robbie B. H.
Title	Contours of culture: space and social difference in Singapore
Publication Date	2005
Publisher	Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press
Call Number	HT147.12 Goh 2005
Subject	Sociology, Urban -- Singapore Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Singapore Multiculturalism -- Singapore Globalization -- Social aspects -- Singapore Singapore -- Social conditions
Page	viii, 261
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries

Creating the garden city: the Singapore experience

1996

Yuen, Belinda

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Author/Creator	Yuen, Belinda
Title	Creating the garden city: the Singapore experience
Source Title	Urban Studies
Publication Date	1996
DOI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420989650011681
Call Number	NA9000 US
Subject	Parks - Singapore -- History Parks -- Government policy -- Singapore Urbanization -- Singapore Industrialization -- Singapore
Page	955-970
Language	English
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Volume	33
Issue	6

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Cultural heritage and peripheral spaces in Singapore

2017

Lim, Tai Wei

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Author/Creator	Lim, Tai Wei
Title	Cultural heritage and peripheral spaces in Singapore
Publication Date	2017
Publisher	Singapore: Springer
Call Number	CC135 Lim 2017
Subject	Cultural property -- Singapore Nostalgia -- Singapore Cultural landscapes -- Singapore Land use, Urban -- Social aspects -- Singapore
Page	xiii, 299
Language	English
URI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4747-3
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	restrictedAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Description	This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore. Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and interpretations that users of peripheral, heritage and green spaces in Singapore create and maintain, through a combination of informal observations and interactions combined with research into local history and heritage. It addresses the subjective meaning-making processes of individuals within the larger theoretical frameworks that structure understandings of changing land use and economical changes which impact on contemporary cityscapes, centered around peripheral and de-privileged areas of Singapore’s economic development.

Cultural landscapes: designing places that highlight local culture(s) in the global city of Singapore

2020

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Editor	Diehl, Jessica Ann Yip, Melissa Sui Ling
Title	Cultural landscapes: designing places that highlight local culture(s) in the global city of Singapore
Publication Date	2020
Publisher	Singapore: School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore
Subject	Cultural landscapes -- Singapore Landscape architecture -- Singapore Urban landscape architecture -- Singapore Landsdcape architecture -- Research -- Singapore
Page	339
Language	English
URI	http://lib.nus.edu.sg/ebooks/Cultural%20Landscape.pdf
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Abstract	This book is a summary of an extended design process conducted by students in the Master of Landscape Architecture Programme at the National University of Singapore. Their task was to focus on Singapore as a cultural landscape. After independence, Singapore endeavoured to develop quickly and has now achieved status as a global city. But a result of such rapid urbanisation and development is that Singaporeans are left without a strong sense of who they are, or where they came from. Through a community-engaged process to understand, capture and re-envision local culture and heritage, students developed new design strategies to enhance the place-ness of Singapore for the future. By surfacing local texture in a global fabric, the aim was to strenhthen cultural identities, improve health and well-being, and create better work, live and play environments for diverse denizens. With the undeniable consequences of climate change, globalization and urbanizatio affecting our plant, landscape sustainability is only possible if we understand not only physical place (built and natural landscapes), but also the people who impact and are impacted by those places. We shape and give meaning to our landscapes and then the landscapes gives clues to WHO we are, how to BEHAVE (what we WEAR), and how we BELONG.

Culture and capital in urban change: the constitutive relationship between development imperatives and symbolic values in Singapore's built environment

1997

Kong, Lily

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Author/Creator	Kong, Lily
Title	Culture and capital in urban change: the constitutive relationship between development imperatives and symbolic values in Singapore's built environment
Source Title	Asian Geographer
Publication Date	1997
DOI	http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10225706.1997.9684026
Call Number	G1 ASG
Subject	Urbanization -- Singapore Religious institutions -- Singapore -- Buildings Economic development -- Environmental aspects Urbanization -- Social aspects -- Singapore Buildings -- Singapore -- Conservation and restoration
Page	89-102
Language	English
Content Type	Journal Article
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries
Volume	16
Issue	1-2

Designing our city : planning for a sustainable Singapore

2012

Collection	Landscape & The Physical Environment
Editor	Tng, Serene Tan, Serene
Title	Designing our city : planning for a sustainable Singapore
Publication Date	2012
Publisher	Singapore : Urban Redevelopment Authority
Call Number	HT169.12 Des 2012
Subject	Sustainable development -- Singapore City planning -- Singapore
Page	28
Language	English
Content Type	Book
Object Type	Text
Terms of Use	openAccess
Repository	NUS Libraries