Singapore's River, a Living Legacy
Author | : Linda Berry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Singapore |
ISBN | : 9789971711672 |
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Author | : Linda Berry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Singapore |
ISBN | : 9789971711672 |
Author | : Linda Berry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Rivers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Belinda K. P. Yuen |
Publisher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9810405731 |
This book attempts to revisit Singapore's urban experience since her independence three decades ago, and unfold the planning and development process behind its successful urban transformation. Topics covered by the chapters include: visionary planning; local planning; IT in planning practice; planning industrial estate development; urban conservation; recreation planning; and planning urban transportation.
Author | : Tina Sim |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2023-02-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9811259062 |
Travel back in time to the Singapore River!Aloysius and his Grandpa spend a day on the Singapore River in olden day Singapore. As Aloysius is introduced to the ships, the bumboats, the boatmen, the coolies and the warehouses, he realises how awesome life on the river was — how busy, noisy, dirty, and smelly too! — and the very vital role it played in Singapore's early days as a port settlement.Travel into Singapore's past with the Time Travel, Singapore! series. The series showcases the people, places, practices, foods, arts, events and so much more that were an integral part of people's lives then.
Author | : Stephen Dobbs |
Publisher | : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9971697386 |
For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepot trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid waterway that forms the centrepiece of Singapore's financial, civic and entertainment districts. This transformation symbolizes the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st century.Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of this waterway, and of the people who made it their home and workplace. He describes the tidal swamp in the early days of the British settlement, where merchants ignored Raffles much-vaunted city plan and built their businesses on the limited high ground along the marshy riverbanks.Later, even as the long distance shipping moved to new port facilities elsewhere on the island, the river remained the base for a large regional trade, and boatmen and businessmen struggled to cope with silting, over-crowding, and bridges that were too low to be passed at high tide.Looking at the post-war years, Dobbs zeros in on the boatmen who carried goods between the "e;godowns"e; or warehouses along the river and the freighters lying at anchor in the roads. Despite its pollution, the river remained home to a vital community of coolies and tally clerks, and the tumultuous urban life that swirled around them.Today the waterfront community has been relocated. The shophouses and warehouses along the river are now chic cafes and upmarket restaurants, fish have returned to the Singapore River, and urban dwellers stroll on walks along the river's edge.Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Singapore's many transformations during the past two centuries.
Author | : Robert Powell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Ang |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9811254249 |
There was once a vibrant river that flowed through the heart of Singapore. The river brought life and joy to everyone, but when people began to mistreat it, it lost its sparkle.Journey through the true story of the Singapore River, and discover how the river gained its sparkle back once again.This book is supported by a grant from the National Heritage Board.
Author | : Kennie Ting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biodiversity |
ISBN | : 9789811185731 |
Author | : Victor R Savage |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9811229171 |
Lion City Narratives: Singapore Through Western Eyes fulfils four aims. First, it is a study of subjective Western impressions of Singapore's 145 years (1819-1963) of colonial history. The study is not meant to be an in-depth historical analysis of Singapore, but rather to give the reader an impressionistic account of how Western residents viewed Singapore over the decades. Second, this study could be seen as a short biography of Singapore's evolution as a city. The chapters on the imageability of Singapore and its urban morphology provide a holistic perspective of Singapore's urban dynamics. Third, this book provides a cultural insight into Singapore's population, both White residents and transient visitors, as well as the locals or Asians. Fourth, it opens a window into Singapore's development at a time when the West was at its cultural zenith and when Great Britain was the principal superpower of the 19th century. Hence Singapore carried twin colonial legacies — it was the archetype trading emporium between East and West, and it became, for the British, the major point d'appui for defence. Finally, the Singapore colonial narrative is set in a broader academic discourse that allows the reader to see a wider picture of Singapore's colonial development.The book does not attempt to make a definitive statement about the Western involvement in Singapore; it deals more with an association of many subjective Western perspectives that add colour to the liveability of the tropics, perceptions of the exotic Orient, and the myriad views of ethnic groups. Without the Western writings, paintings, and maps, academia would have minimal records of Singapore's development. As a new colony in the early 19th century however, Singapore's growth has been extremely well documented.This book will appeal to Singaporeans interested in understanding Singapore's colonial past, Westerners interested in the Western cultural persona in the development of Singapore, researchers dealing with the urban development of less-developed countries and colonial development in the tropical world, and lastly, academics who are interested in Singapore and the region's political and economic development as a case study.
Author | : Robbie B H Goh |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2003-05-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9814486590 |
Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of other discourses. In addition it also analyzes the experiences of modernization in such cities, but also in terms of the strategies of containment, refurbishment, and loss which this has occasioned.