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This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore. Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and interpretations that users of peripheral, heritage and green spaces in Singapore create and maintain, through a combination of informal observations and interactions combined with research into local history and heritage. It addresses the subjective meaning-making processes of individuals within the larger theoretical frameworks that structure understandings of changing land use and economical changes which impact on contemporary cityscapes, centered around peripheral and de-privileged areas of Singapore's economic development.
List of contents
Introduction: A personal trekking history.- Southern Singapore: The constituency of Tanjong Pagar and its surrounding areas of Marina, Bayfront and Raffles Place in southern Singapore.- Fetishism for Heritage and Nature: A case study of the mature Tiong Bahru estate and surrounding areas.- The Pedagogical Contributions of the Peripheral Spaces of Walks: Fort Canning and Tiong Bahru.- Peripheral land no more?: Fetishisms of space and the cases studies of Green Rail Corridor and Clementi Forest.- Singapore's green lungs: The Central Catchment area and their peripheral areas.- Terminal End of Singapore's North-South Hike: Fetishisms of Nostalgic and Rusticity in Northern Singapore.- Journey to the West: Hiking along the peripheral spaces of Southern Ridges.- Hiking the East Coast of Singapore.- Concluding Chapter.
About the author
Dr Tai Wei Lim is Senior Lecturer at UniSIM and Adjunct Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD from Cornell University, US.
Summary
This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore. Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and interpretations that users of peripheral, heritage and green spaces in Singapore create and maintain, through a combination of informal observations and interactions combined with research into local history and heritage. It addresses the subjective meaning-making processes of individuals within the larger theoretical frameworks that structure understandings of changing land use and economical changes which impact on contemporary cityscapes, centered around peripheral and de-privileged areas of Singapore’s economic development.
