Publisher's Synopsis
This book examines the nature of conflict between the colonial authorities, which wanted the city ordered, sanitized, and amenable to regulation, and the Asian communities who lived and worked there and had their own values, priorities and resources. The result was an environment that embodied and expressed the tensions and negotiations, conflicts and compromises between the different groups.;This book is intended for scholars and students of urban planning, cultural and social geography and social history; town planners; readers interested in South-East Asia in general and Singapore in particular.
