Today, cities depend on global food systems that prioritize urban needs over that of other regions. These food systems are part of a model of urbanism that works towards increasing disconnection in the food ecosystem – ecologically and sociopolitically. By discussing our varied experiences with a community food initiative in Singapore, Foodscape Collective, we reflect on the collaborative aspect of making, and finding, our place – viewing placemaking as a process of civic sense-making and identity-formation. Through a collaboratively written set of perspectives, we suggest how civic urbanism through dialogical placemaking renews our relationships with food and agriculture, by weaving together imaginaries of a more inclusive and circular food system.

This paper examines identity transformation among Chinese migrants in Singapore in the context of transnationalism and widespread use of ICT s (Information and Communication Technologies). Based on how strongly migrants identify with the homeland and the host country, the paper constructs four ideal types of identity: transnational, assimilatory, sojourning, and cosmopolitan. The study finds that the most common identity is the transnational sort, characterized by the migrant identifying strongly with both homeland and host country. Nevertheless, migrants also hold other identities including those beyond the four ideal types, demonstrating the diversity and fluidity of migrants' identity transformation. The paper also examines the factors that affect migrants' identity transformation. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2022.