Beyond Description: Singapore Space Historicity (Architext) [Hardcover]

Ryan Bishop (Editor), John Phillips (Editor), Wei-Wei Yeo (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 6, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0415299810 | ISBN-13: 978-0415299817 | Edition: New edition

This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions about global urbanism, postcolonialism, and architectural theory while producing challenging new ideas from a variety of disciplines concerned with how space, historicity, architecture and textuality inform one another.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Considers the spatial history of discourses and the political uses of 'emergency' as well as the militarization of daily spaces in the city.' - Space and Culture

About the Author

Ryan Bishop is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English and American Studies at NUS. He is co-author with Lillian S. Robinson of Night Market (Routledge, 1998) and co-editor with John Phillips and Yeo Wei Wei of Postcolonial Urbanism (Routledge, 2000).
John Phillips is Associate Professor in English at NUS. He is the author of Contested Knowledge: A Guide to Critical Theory (Zed, 2000) and is co-editor with Lyndsey Stonebridge of Reading Melanie Klein (Routledge, 1998).
Yeo Wei Wei is Assistant Professor in the Departent of English Language and Literature at NUS.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; New edition edition (August 6, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415299810
• ISBN-13: 978-0415299817
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,230,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)