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Urban Spaces,
Politics, Citizenship
YiEn, Cheng (Dr)
Researcher, National University of Singapore
Venice of Punggol
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We stood a distance away from the crowded bus stop, beside a rubbish bin,
where we had a view of the front view of the campus. He lit a cigarette, took a
puff, and pointed in the direction of the campus. See how small our bloody
school is (from Chengs thesis)
We are like second-class of the lot, even our school facilities cannot make it. I
always visit my friends at U-Town, the place so beautiful (May, interviewee)
Lin, W.Q. 2012. Wasting time? The differentiation of travel time in urban transport. Environment and
Planning A, 44(10): 2477-2492.
Cross Island Line to have about 30 stations, with 600,000 trips made daily: Khaw, The Straits Times, 29
Feb 2016
Urban citizen as becoming: not legal status nor prescribed category
Urban markets as a corrective to advanced urbanism: The social space of wet markets in contemporary
Singapore, Urban Studies, 52(1):103-120)
Are they really spaces of
unmediated social interactions?
(see next)
Concluding
Part 1: Urban politics as politics of space
(a) Politics of identities
(b) Migration and superdiversity
Part 2: Becoming an urban citizen: power of spatial practices
(a) Urban citizen as P/p-olitical
(b) Everyday civic spaces
Relation to Project Work:
- everyday urban space analysed through Walking-Rhythm-Talking
- Issues of power (identities, mobilities, encounters): inclusions and
exclusions?
- Place-making: evidence of spatial inventions, claims, or struggles?
- Street-level multiculturalism/conviviality in urban site? Do these elide
social differences and unequal power relations?