Contesting space in colonial Singapore : power relations and the urban built environment (Record no. 54820)
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| fixed length control field | 05530 a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789971692681 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 711.1309 |
| Item number | YEO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Yeoh, Brenda S. A. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Contesting space in colonial Singapore : power relations and the urban built environment |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Singapore |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | National University of Singapore Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxv,351p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | CONTENTS<br/>Acknowledgements zx<br/>Acknowledgements to the First Edition XI<br/>Tables XVll<br/>Figures xix<br/>Plates xxi<br/>Abbreviations XXlli<br/>Glossary XXIV<br/>Note on Currency XXVI<br/>Note on Chinese Names and Terms xxvi<br/>1 Pow&- Relations and the Built Environment in<br/>Colonial Cities 1<br/>The Distinctiveness of Colonial Cities 1<br/>Approaches to the Shaping of the Urban Built<br/>Environment in Colonial Cities 4<br/>The Colonial City as Contested Terrain 9<br/>The Exercise of Power in Colonial Societies 10<br/>Power Relations and the Colonial Urban Built<br/>Environment 16<br/>Rhetorical Form and Recoverable Reality : The Plan<br/>of the Book and the Use of Sources 18<br/>2 Establishing an Institution of Control over the Urban Built Environment: The Municipal Authority<br/>ofSingapore, 1819-1930 28<br/>The Institution of Municipal Government 28<br/>The Administration of Urban Affairs, 1819-1887 31<br/>Urban Development and the Spatial Structure of the City<br/>in the Late Nineteenth Century 35<br/>The Expansion of Municipal Government, 1887-1930 48<br/>Tht Composition of the Municipal Commission 58<br/>The Municipal Authority as an Institution of Power 64<br/>3 Municipal Sanitary Surveillance, Asian Resistance,<br/>and the Control of the Urban Environment 85<br/>The Campaign for a Sanitized Environment in Colonial<br/>Singapore 85<br/>The Aetiology of 'Filth' Diseases and Colonial Perceptions<br/>of Asian Domestic Practices 90<br/>The Scourge of Tuberculosis and Asian Housing<br/>Conditions 93<br/>Municipal Strategies of Disease and Sanitary Control:<br/>Surveillance 101<br/>The Asian Plebeian Response to Municipal Sanitary<br/>Control 111<br/>Chinese Medical Resources and Chinese Attitudes<br/>towards Health and Disease 112<br/>Asian Counter-strategies against Municipal Sanitary<br/>Control 119<br/>The Dialectics of Power 123<br/>4. Shaping the Built Form of the City: From the<br/>Regulation ofHouse Form to Urban Planning 136<br/>An Alternative History of Housing in Singapore? 136<br/>The Municipal Perspective : The Evidence for<br/>Overcrowding and Insanitary Housing Conditions 137<br/>The People's Perspective: The Organization of House<br/>Space in an Overcrowded City 143<br/>Municipal Strategies against Overcrowding : The<br/>Regulation of Spatial Form 146<br/>'Salus Populi Suprema Lex': The Move towards Town<br/>Planning 16 0<br/>Transforming the Built Form of the City: Intentions<br/>versus Effects 167<br/>5 Municipal versus Asian Utilities Systems: Urban<br/>Water Supply and Sewage Disposal 175<br/>Water Supply, Sewage Disposal, and 'Filth' Diseases in<br/>Nineteenth-century Cities 175<br/>The Origins and Expansion of a Municipal Water<br/>Supply 177<br/>Water Supply and Public Health: Well versus Municipal<br/>Water 183<br/>The Cost and Conservation of Water: Taps versus Meters 18 7<br/>The Chinese System of Night-soil Disposal 190<br/>Establishing a Municipal System of Night-soil Removal: The 'Pail' versus 'Sewer' Debate and the<br/>MacRitchie Reports 193<br/>Improving the 'Asiatic Pail System' 195<br/>The 'Pail' versus 'Sewer' Debate Revisited: The Peirce<br/>and Simpson Reports 198<br/>The Move towards Sewering the Town 201<br/>The 'Two-pail System': Compulsory Municipal<br/>Night-soil Collection as an Interim Solution 203<br/>Negotiating Control over Urban Utilities 204<br/>PART II 213<br/>ORDERING THE PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT 215<br/>6 The Naming and Signification of Urban Space:<br/>Municipal versus Asian Street-names and<br/>Place-names 219<br/>The Significance of Street-names and Place-names in<br/>Singapore 219<br/>The Naming Process 221<br/>Municipal Street-names and Place-names 222<br/>Chinese Street-names and Place-names 229<br/>The Contest for the Meaning of the Urban Built<br/>Environment 232<br/>7. The Control of 'Public' Space: Conflicts over<br/>The Definition and Use of the Verandah 243<br/>Municipal Perceptions of Order in 'Public' Spaces: The<br/>Verandah 243<br/>Asian Perceptions and Use of the Verandah 245<br/>Municipal Attempts at Verandah Reform in the Nineteenth<br/>Century 249<br/>The 'Verandah Riots' 250<br/>The Verandah as an Arena of Daily Conflict : Municipal<br/> Versus Asian Strategies 254<br/>The Municipal Campaign against Street and Verandah<br/>'Obstructionists' : Hawkers and Street Traders 262<br/>Restructuring Pedestrian Circulation Space: Widening<br/>Verandahs and Adding Sidewalks 266<br/>Negotiating Control over 'Public' Circulation Space 268<br/>8 The Control of 'Sacred' Space: Conflicts over<br/>the Chinese Burial Grounds 281<br/>The 'Sacred' in the Urban Built Environment 281<br/>Death and Cemeteries : The Western European Tradition 282<br/>Burial Grounds and Urban Development in Colonial<br/>Singapore 283<br/>The Control of Chinese Burial Grounds: The Debate over<br/>the 1887 Burials Bill and Subsequent Legislation 289<br/>Conflicting Discourses: Chinese versus Western<br/>Conceptions of the Significance of 'Sacred' Space 294<br/>Less 'Visible' Aspects of the Conflict over Chinese Burial Grounds 296<br/>The Establishment of a Municipal Cemetery for the Chinese 300<br/>Negotiating Control over 'Sacred' Space 303<br/>9 Conclusion: The Politics of Space in Colonial Singapore 312<br/>Appendix 317<br/>Bibliography 323<br/>Index 346<br/><br/> |
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| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | Singapore |
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| Topic | FA |
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