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This event is co-organized by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Cities Research Cluster, Asia Research Institute (ARI) Asian Urbanisms Cluster, and the Singapore Research Nexus.

CHAIRPERSON

Prof Mike Douglass, Asia Research Institute and Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

ABSTRACT

If High Line is more engineered and staged than its pastoral and preserved industrial ruin image might suggest — more Rudolph Giuliani and Walt Disney than Jane Jacobs on stilts — Singapore has long been more forthright in stressing social engineering, commercial interests, and the policing of public space in the service of quality of urban life.  The Green Corridor’s island-spanning length and country lane ambience contrast with the more typical Singaporean high-rise and congested urban setting. The Green Corridor as an idiosyncratic space of flows and place stimulates thinking about Singapore and, like High Line, 21st century urbanism in its entirety.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

David Strand has published two books on modern Chinese urban history — Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989) and Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast and Diaspora in Transnational China (co-edited with Sherman Cochran and Wen-hsin Yeh) (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies China Research Monographs, 2007) – and two others on political leadership and citizenship:  Reconstructing Twentieth Century China: State Control, Civil Society and National Identity (co-edited with Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard) (New York: Oxford University/Clarendon Press, 1998) and An Unfinished Republic: Leading By Word and Deed in Early Twentieth Century China (University of California Press, 2011).

REGISTRATION

Admission is free and light refreshments will be provided. Please rsvp with your name, email, and affiliation to Ms Rachel Amtzis at fasrda@nus.edu.sg