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Squatters into citizens : the 1961 Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore / Loh Kah Seng.
Van Pelt Library DS610.9.B84 L64 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loh, Kah Seng, author.
- Series:
- Southeast Asia publications series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bukit Ho Swee Fire, Singapore, 1961.
- Public housing--Singapore.
- Public housing.
- Housing policy--Singapore.
- Housing policy.
- Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Fire: A Catalyst for Modern Singapore 1
- Crisis and Planning in the Metropole 5
- An Alternative Modernity on the Margin 10
- The Singapore Exception in Southeast Asia 13
- Fire as Catalyst 17
- Overview of Remaining Chapters 24
- Chapter 2 Hopeful Migrants in the Urban Kampongs 26
- Between Staying and Moving 29
- Exodus from "Pigeon Cages" and Direct Arrivals 34
- The Character of a Mobile Community 44
- Chapter 3 A "Black Area" 47
- First Act of Fire, 1934 48
- Post-war: "Finding a Road" 50
- Living with Pigs and the Dead 59
- Gangsters and Kampong Children 65
- Chapter 4 "A Roar from the Oppressed People" 73
- Representation and Surveillance 74
- Prosecution and Demolition 79
- Clearance and Resettlement 81
- Planning and Zoning 84
- Politics and Mobilisation 87
- Bukit Ho Swee and Hong Lim Pa Sat 94
- Chapter 5 Fires and Experiments with Emergency Housing 98
- Geography of Risk, Culture of Fire 99
- Voluntary Firefighting Squads 104
- Million-Dollar Inferno at Kampong Bugis 106
- "14-Day Wonder" at Geylang Lorong 3 108
- Degenerating into Slums: Emergency Housing at Geylang Lorong 25 110
- Fire and State Inaction at Kampong Tiong Bahru 112
- Emergency Housing for Sale at Kampong Koo Chye 114
- "The Opportunity to Clean up the Area Must Not Be Lost": Kampong Tiong Bahru, 1959 118
- Chapter 6 The Inferno 127
- 174-A Kampong Tiong Bahru, About 2.50 p.m. 127
- Beo Lane, from 3.30p.m. 132
- Or Kio Tau, from Roughly 4.30 p.m. 140
- Delta Estate, About 5.30 p.m. 147
- Arc of Destruction 148
- Chapter 7 State of Emergency 154
- Fire Site under Guard 154
- A Maelstrom of Activity at the Relief Centre 157
- Operation Shift 168
- The Great Singapore Fire Debate 172
- The Anger and Rumours 175
- Chapter 8 Nine Months 182
- War on Familiar Ogres and Unauthorised Housing 182
- Managers and Architects to Break Eggs and Make Omelettes 186
- "A God-sent Opportunity" to Build Bukit Ho Swee Estate 189
- The End of the Emergency Housing Experiment 198
- The Planned New City 202
- Chapter 9 Bukit Ho Swee Estate 212
- Renewing the Estate 212
- Becoming Good and Loyal Citizens 220
- Pain and Bitterness: Work and Resignation to Poverty 224
- The Estate beyond the Law 230
- Gangs and Socially Detached Youths 235
- Chapter 10 Memory, Myth and Identity 243
- Like a Rising Phoenix: The Official Mythology 244
- Romancing the Kampong 252
- "Wild Talk" and Undying Rumours 256
- Conclusion Fire, Emergency and High Modernism 262
- Cultures of Modernity Past and Present 270.
- Notes:
- Published in Singapore by NUS Press.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824839468
- 0824839463
- OCLC:
- 847246347
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