Contesting Space: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment in Colonial Singapore (South-east Asian Social Science Monographs) - Hardcover

Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9676530859 ISBN 13: 9789676530851

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

Synopsis

This book examines the nature of conflict between the colonial authorities, which wanted the city ordered, sanitized, and amenable to regulation, and the Asian communities who lived and worked in colonial Singapore and had their own values, priorities, and resources. The result was an
environment that embodied and expressed the tensions and negotiations, conflicts, and compromises between the different groups.

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Synopsis

This book examines the nature of conflict between the colonial authorities, which wanted the city ordered, sanitized, and amenable to regulation, and the Asian communities who lived and worked there and had their own values, priorities and resources. The result was an environment that embodied and expressed the tensions and negotiations, conflicts and compromises between the different groups. This book is intended for scholars and students of urban planning, cultural and social geography and social history; town planners; readers interested in South-East Asia in general and Singapore in particular.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9676530859
• ISBN 13: 9789676530851
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374