A New World in the Making Life and Architecture in Tropical Asia / Tay Kheng Soon.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Kheng Soon, Tay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : NUS Press, 2023.

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505 0 |a Cover -- Half-title page -- Full-title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- Family -- Sibling Rivalry -- Second World War -- The Language/Class Divide -- Life in Cameron Highlands -- Return to Serangoon Road -- Becoming -- Off to School -- Adventures in Braddell Heights -- Adolescence, Power and Purpose -- Scouting Days -- The 12 School Boy "Apostles" -- The Spiritual Experience -- Pursuing Architecture -- Taking Charge of One's Own Learning -- Trip to Java -- Being -- Malayan Architects Co-Partnership -- Chong Keat versus Willy -- The Rise of Local Firms 
505 8 |a Awakening the Malayan -- Singapore Planning and Urban Research Group -- Meeting Lee Kuan Yew -- To Kuala Lumpur and Back -- My Explusion from Design Partnership -- A Tribute to the Malayan Generation -- Essays -- The Cultural Role of Singapore City -- The Future of Asian Cities -- Collyer Quay's 12-Lane Coastal Superhighway -- Development and its Impact on Changing Values -- Singapore's Transport Dilemma -- Is Singapore Architecture "Obiang"? -- Heritage Conservation's Political and Social Implications: The Case of Singapore 
505 8 |a Scope for the Economic and Cultural Invigorationof the National Sector -- Civil Society's Contribution: Beyond Power Politics -- Creating Cultural Capital in Singapore -- Beyond Current Reality: A New Singapore, Perhaps? -- Interrogating Great Asian Streets -- Hanyu Pinyin and Singapore Street Names -- Singapore Colloquial Values that Strike a Chord -- Singapore: A Paradoxical Paradise -- Ideas and Proposals -- Proposal for "South Sea Lagoon Project" at East Coast Reclamation -- Housing for Industrial Centres -- Locate Airport at Changi 
505 8 |a Low-Rise High-Density Housing: Towards a More Sociable Housing Form -- Synopsis of Concepts of the Intelligent Tropical City -- The Kampong Bugis Case Study -- Retirement Cottages: An Option for Housing Singapore's Elders within the Community -- Building Linear Blocks Over Roads: A Prelude to The Singapore Management University Saga -- Proposed Indo-Pacific Cultural Centre at Marina Bay Singapore -- Singapore Version 2.0 -- Rubanisation -- Afterword -- List of Images -- Index 
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