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Title: The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore
Condition: New
Author: Huiying Ng
Contributor: Simone Shu-Yeng Chung (Edited by), Mike Douglass (Edited by), Gideon Kong (Contributions by), Rodolphe Koninck (Contributions by), Olivia Khoo (Contributions by), Simone Chung (Contributions by), Jamie Yeo (Contributions by), Weng Choy Lee (Contributions by), Mark Frost (Contributions by), Mike Douglass (Contributions by), Huiying Ng (Contributions by), Wei Leong Goh (Contributions by), Teck Seng Chow (Contributions by), Steve Ferzacca (Contributions by), Emily Chua (Contributions by), Natalie Pang (Contributions by), Su Fern Hoe (Contributions by), Kai Khiun Liew (Contributions by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: NL
EAN: 9789463729505
Edition: 0
Format: Hardback
Genre: Science Nature & Math
ISBN: 9789463729505
ISBN-10: 946372950X
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Type: Hardback
Topic: Social Sciences, Philosophy & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Release Date: 29/06/2020
Book Series: Asian Cities
Release Year: 2020
Description: 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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