Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Introduction 11
5. Part I. (De)-Constructing Master Narratives of the City
6. 1 Singapore Songlines Revisited 37
7. 2 On the Banning of a Film 69
8. 3 The City State of Singapore’s Territorial and Social Management Dilemmas 93
9. Part II. The Arts as Prisms of the Urban Imaginative
10. 4. The Address of Art and the Scale of Other Places 113
11. 5 Forming Cityscapes 121
12. 6 The Sinophone as Lyrical Aesthetics Redefined 145
13. 7 Noisy Places, Noisy People 171
14. Part III. The City Possible in Action
15. 8 Place Management/Making 191
16. 9 Conviviality in Clementi 213
17. 10 Mediating Community in Bukit Brown 233
18. 11 Collaborative Imaginaries 251
19. 12 The Invisible Electorate 275
20. Conclusion 299
21. Index 307