The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore (Paperback, 1)

Introduction: The Master Narrative and the Lived City-Half a Century of Imagining Singapore,Simone Shu-Yeng Chung and Mike Douglass, Part I (De)-Constructing Master Narratives of the City, 1. Singapore Songlines Revisited: The World Class Complex and the Multiple Deaths of Context,Mark R. Frost, 2. On the Banning of a Film: Tan Pin Pin's To Singapore, with Love,Olivia Khoo, 3. The City State of Singapore's Territorial and Social Management Dilemmas: Reminiscing about Classical Athens,Rodolphe De Koninck, Part II The Arts as Prisms of the Urban Imaginative, 4. The Address of Art and the Scale of Other Places,Weng Choy Lee, 5. Forming Cityscapes: Small Interventions and Appropriations in the City,Gideon Kong and Jamie Yeo, 6. The Sinophone as Lyrical Aesthetics Redefined: In the Case of Contemporary Singapore Chinese Language Poetics, Chow Teck Seng, 7. Noisy People, Noisy Places: Trouble and Meaning in Singapore,Steve Ferzacca, Part III The City Possible in Action, 8. Place Management/Making: The Policy and Practice of Arts-Centred Spatial Interventions in Singapore,Hoe Su Fern, 9. Conviviality in Clementi: The Flowering of a Local Social Housing Community,Goh Wei Leong, 10. Mediating Community in Bukit Brown,Natalie Pang and Liew Kai Khiun, 11. Collaborative Imaginaries: Social Experiments, Free Schools and Counterpublics in Singapore,Huiying Ng, 12. The Invisible Electorate: Political Campaign Participation as the Production of an Alternative National Space,Emily Chua Hui Ching,Conclusion,Simone Shu-Yeng Chung and Mike Douglass, Index.