Title & Author:

Beyond description : Singapore space historicity / edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, and Wei-Wei Yeo.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xi, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

The Architext series

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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beyond description: Singapore space historicity / Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo -- Of trees and the heartland: historicity and representations of Singaporean landscape / Wei-Wei Yeo -- Towards a spatial history of emergency: notes from Singapore / Gregory Clancy -- "The vertical order has come to an end": the insignia of the miltary C³I and urbanism in global networks / Ryan Bishop -- At home in the worlds: community and consumption in urban Singapore / Philip Holden -- Evangelical economies and abjected spaces: cultural territorialisation in Singapore / Robbie B.H. Goh -- Singapore: a skyline of pragmatism / Kwek Mean Luck -- The axis of Singapore: South Brigade Road / Robert Powell -- Modernist urbanism and its revitalization / William S.W. Lim -- Post-functionalist urbanism, the postmodern and Singapore / Heinz Paetzold -- The tropical city: slippages in the midst of ideological construction / Wong Chong Thai Bobby -- Intelligent island, baroque ecology / Aihwa Ong -- As the wind blows and dew came down: ghost stories and collective memory in Singapore / Carole Faucher -- Urban new archiving / John Phillips.

Summary:

"Beyond Description explores the history and architecture of Singapore. It argues that neither history nor architecture can be fruitfully examined without reference to the other. For this reason, aspects of urban life will always be beyond description, yet these aspects are what most call for analysis. On this premise, the book examines Singapore's built environment by assessing how its past as a colonial port related to its present as a global hub and how these inform its possible futures. The chapters complicate existing assumptions about global urbanism, post-colonialism and architectural theory from a dedicated interdisciplinary perspective."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0415299810 (hdbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780415299817 (hdbk. ; acid-free paper)
0415299829 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780415299824 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780203643228
0203643224
9781134422777 (e-book ; PDF)
1134422776
9781134422722 (e-book ; Mobi)
1134422725
9781134422760 (e-book ; ePub)
1134422768

Subject:

Architecture Singapore.
City planning Singapore.
Architecture and history Singapore.
Globalization.
Architecture Singapour.
Urbanisme Singapour.
Mondialisation.
Architecture et histoire Singapour.
globalism.
74.72 urban planning.
Architecture.
Architecture and history.
City planning.
Stedelijk beleid.
Open ruimten.
Bouwkunst.
Singapore.

Added entries:

Bishop, Ryan, 1959-
Phillips, John, 1956-
Yeo, Wei-Wei.
Architext series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232497
Call No.: NA1530.S55 B49 2004
Status: Available