Contesting Space: Power Relationships and the Urban Built Environment in Colonial Singapore by Brenda S.A. Yeoh

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

Brenda S.A. Yeoh

392 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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This book examines the nature of conflict between the colonial authorities, which wanted the city ordered, sanitized, and amenable to regulation, and the Asian communities who lived and worked in colonial Singapore and had their own values, priori...

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