This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore. Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and interpretations that users of peripheral, heritage and green spaces in Singapore create and maintain, through a combination of informal observations and interactions combined with research into local history and heritage. It addresses the subjective meaning-making processes of individuals within the larger theoretical frameworks that structure understandings of changing land use and economical changes which impact on contemporary cityscapes, centered around peripheral and de-privileged areas of Singapore's economic development.

Auteur
Dr Tai Wei Lim is Senior Lecturer at UniSIM and Adjunct Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD from Cornell University, US.

Contenu
Introduction: A personal trekking history.- Southern Singapore: The constituency of Tanjong Pagar and its surrounding areas of Marina, Bayfront and Raffles Place in southern Singapore.- Fetishism for Heritage and Nature: A case study of the mature Tiong Bahru estate and surrounding areas.- The Pedagogical Contributions of the Peripheral Spaces of Walks: Fort Canning and Tiong Bahru.- Peripheral land no more?: Fetishisms of space and the cases studies of Green Rail Corridor and Clementi Forest.- Singapore's green lungs: The Central Catchment area and their peripheral areas.- Terminal End of Singapore's North-South Hike: Fetishisms of Nostalgic and Rusticity in Northern Singapore.- Journey to the West: Hiking along the peripheral spaces of Southern Ridges.- Hiking the East Coast of Singapore.- Concluding Chapter.