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Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Native names of streets in Singapore written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor R. Savage
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Academic
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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Toponymics written by Victor R. Savage and published by Marshall Cavendish Academic. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents archival work as well as field work and interviews. The introductory chapters provide an overview of the academic importance of studying place names (toponymics). In Singapore, there has been much controversy over place names due to the introduction of Hanyu Pinyin names. Singapore street names are also complicated by the fact that the names represent colonial, Chinese, Malay, Indian and Arab names. On top of that, many street and place names are also referred to by various ethnic groups in a colloquial manner which is quite different from the official name. This book will help developers to be able to name various buildings and other developments in a historically appropriate and culturally relevant manner. It will also be of interest to those who would like to know the history and background of Singaporean street names.
Author : Victor R. Savage
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9815009230
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Singapore Street Names (4th edition): A Study of Toponymics written by Victor R. Savage and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Place names tell us much about a country — its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-image, The study of place names called toponymics unlocks the stories that are in every street name and landmark. In Singapore, the existence of various races, cultures and languages, as well as its history of colonization, immigration and nationalism has given rise to a complex history of place names. But how did these places get their names? This revised and expanded 4th edition of the book incorporates additional information, from archival research as well as interviews that have come to light since the last edition. Also included are many new entries that have presented themselves as Singapore’s built environment undergoes redevelopment. Expanded by over 100 pages.
Author : Yew Peng Ng
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981322147X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book What's In The Name? How The Streets And Villages In Singapore Got Their Names written by Yew Peng Ng and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1819, more than 6,200 place (street and village) names divided into more than 3,900 name groups were known in Singapore. Based on digitised historical newspapers, dated back to 1830, municipal records and Malay dictionaries, the origins, meanings and date of naming for many place names are uncovered. As part of Singapore history, place names known since 1936 are recorded in this book.Although place names are fairly static in nature, there have been more than 100 name changes. The naming trends transitioned from English to Malay and then back to English names. Discover that Toa Payoh was not named after a big swamp, Anderson Road was named before John Anderson, a former Governor, took up his job and many more new findings in this exciting book.This book is a complete listing of all place names since 1936, together with the most comprehensive annotations to date — a first in Singapore. It is also the only book of its kind that analyses naming trends. Information on the origins or date of naming was based on primary sources such as old maps, minutes of municipal meetings, Chinese books and digitised newspapers.
Author : Victor R. Savage
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Editions
ISBN 13 : 9789814928809
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Singapore Street Names written by Victor R. Savage and published by Marshall Cavendish Editions. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Place names tell us much about a country -- its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-image, The study of place names called toponymics unlocks the stories that are in every street name and landmark. In Singapore, the existence of various races, cultures and languages, as well as its history of colonization, immigration and nationalism has given rise to a complex history of place names. But how did these places get their names? This revised and expanded 4th edition of the book incorporates additional information, from archival research as well as interviews that have come to light since the last edition. Also included are many new entries that have presented themselves as Singapore's built environment undergoes redevelopment. Expanded by over 100 pages.
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Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971692681
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore written by Brenda S. A. Yeoh and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issues. As the city expanded, various disputes concerning issues such as sanitation, housing and street names arose. This volume details these conflicts and how they shaped the city.
Author : Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francesco Perono Cacciafoco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108490166
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Place Names written by Francesco Perono Cacciafoco and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with numerous case studies, this book is the first comprehensive overview of the related fields of toponymy and toponomastics.
Author : Hee Limin
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971694905
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book On Asian Streets and Public Space written by Hee Limin and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid urbanization of the Asian continent and transformation of its cityscapes have incited many professionals and scholars to pay urgent attention to the study of Asian streets and public spaces in the hope of recording them, learning from their complex nature, and even applying distilled principles in new environments before they disappear under the assault of rapid urban transformation. This volume presents articles focusing on four prevalent themes, namely transformation and modernity, the culture of streets, experiencing the street and finally, design and quality of streets. However, these themes inevitably overlap, pointing out again the complexity of what we call the "street" and the necessity for interdisciplinary research. Finally, adding "Asian" to "street" opens up the discussion about spaces in the Asian city, and even concepts of "Asian-ness", if indeed such a concept can be defined. Believing in the importance of understanding "Asian streets" and "streets" in general for future design and planning of our cities, this collection of essays encourages greater interest in this subject, and therefore more interdisciplinary research. Accordingly, this book should interest not only urban planners, architects and other design and building professionals, but also environmentalists, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers and historians as well as the general public.
Author : Anoma Pieris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824833546
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes written by Anoma Pieris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions. A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore’s colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison’s development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments.
Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317020715
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes written by Reuben Rose-Redwood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.
Author : Gregory James
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Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Colporuḷ written by Gregory James and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. W. Firmstone
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Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Chinese Names of Streets and Places in Singapore and the Malay Peninsula written by H. W. Firmstone and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bee Choo Tan
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Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (226 download)
Download or read book Street Names in Selected Areas of Singapore written by Bee Choo Tan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the annual report of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.
Author : Jagat K. Motwani
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Global Indian Diaspora written by Jagat K. Motwani and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
