Contesting space in colonial Singapore : power relations and the urban built environment / Brenda S.A. Yeoh.
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TextSeries: Singapore, studies in society & historyPublisher: Singapore : Singapore University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xxv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9971692686
- 9789971692681
- 307.76095957 21
- HT243.S55 Y46 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345) and index.
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.
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