TY - BOOK ID - 85647135 TI - The hard state, soft city of Singapore AU - Chung, Simone Shu-Yeng AU - Douglass, Mike PY - 2020 SN - 9048544009 946372950X PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cities and towns KW - City planning KW - Global cities KW - Municipalities KW - Towns KW - Urban areas KW - Urban systems KW - Human settlements KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Singapore KW - Social life and customs. KW - Singapore State-civil society relations Urban culture Place-making Human agency. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85647135 AB - With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, the volume explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and the conceptualised space engineered into material form by bureaucrats, experts and commercial interests, a perceptual layer of space is conjured out of people's everyday life experiences. While such imaginative projections may not be as tangible as its functional designations, they are nonetheless equally vital and palpable. The richness of its inhabitants' memories, aspirations and meaningful interpretations challenges the reduction of Singapore as a Generic City. Taking the imaginative field as the point of departure, the forms and modes of intellectual and creative articulations of Singapore's urban condition probe the resilience of cities, and the people who reside in them, through the images they convey or evoke as a means for collective expressions of human agency in placemaking. ER -