Contesting space in colonial Singapore : power relations in the urban built environment
Author(s): Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Contesting space in colonial Singapore : power relations in the urban built environment
- Author(s)
- Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
- Publisher
- Singapore : Singapore University Press, 2003
- Collation
- xxv, 351 p. : ill.
26 cm. - Series Title
- Singapore : studies in society & history
- ISBN
- 9971692686
- Dewey Class
- 307.76095957
- Contents
- 1. Power Relations and the Built Environment in Colonial Cities -- 2. Establishing an Institution of Control over the Urban Built Environment: The Municipal Authority of Singapore, 1819-1930 -- 3. Municipal Sanitary Surveillance, Asian Resistance, and the Control of the Urban Environment -- 4. Shaping the Built Form of the City: From the Regulation of House Form to Urban Planning -- 5. Municipal versus Asian Utilities Systems: Urban Water Supply and Sewage Disposal -- 6. The Naming and Signification of Urban Space: Municipal versus Asian Street-names and Place-names -- 7. The Control of 'Public' Space: Conflicts over the Definition and Use of the Verandah -- 8. The Control of 'Sacred' Space: Conflicts over the Chinese Burial Grounds -- 9. Conclusion: The Politics of Space in Colonial Singapore.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- City planning -- Singapore
Urban ecology -- Singapore. - BRN
- 435
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Rotunda Library & Archive
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