Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment

by Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Book Overview

In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issue. As the city expanded, disputes arose in connection with sanitation, housing, street names, control over pedestrian 'five-foot-ways', and sacred spaces such as burial grounds. Brenda Yeoh's Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore details these conflicts and how they shaped the city. The British administration structured the private and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9971692686
• ISBN13: 9789971692681
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: NUS Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 10.0"