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Author | : Tina Sim |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2023-02-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9811259062 |
Travel back in time to the Singapore River!Aloysius and his Grandpa spend a day on the Singapore River in olden day Singapore. As Aloysius is introduced to the ships, the bumboats, the boatmen, the coolies and the warehouses, he realises how awesome life on the river was — how busy, noisy, dirty, and smelly too! — and the very vital role it played in Singapore's early days as a port settlement.Travel into Singapore's past with the Time Travel, Singapore! series. The series showcases the people, places, practices, foods, arts, events and so much more that were an integral part of people's lives then.
Author | : Stephen Dobbs |
Publisher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Cities and town life |
ISBN | : 9789971692773 |
Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of the Singapore river and of the people who made it their home and workplace. This text should be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Singapore's numerous transformations.
Author | : Timothy Auger |
Publisher | : Didier Millet,Csi |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789814385855 |
Discover how the Singapore government rehabilitated the Singapore River and created Marina Bay, transforming both into lifestyle/commercial settings.
Author | : Kolam Ayer Citizens' Consultative Committee |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Kallang River (Singapore) |
ISBN | : 9789811206993 |
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Stephen Dobbs |
Publisher | : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9971697386 |
For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepot trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid waterway that forms the centrepiece of Singapore's financial, civic and entertainment districts. This transformation symbolizes the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st century.Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of this waterway, and of the people who made it their home and workplace. He describes the tidal swamp in the early days of the British settlement, where merchants ignored Raffles much-vaunted city plan and built their businesses on the limited high ground along the marshy riverbanks.Later, even as the long distance shipping moved to new port facilities elsewhere on the island, the river remained the base for a large regional trade, and boatmen and businessmen struggled to cope with silting, over-crowding, and bridges that were too low to be passed at high tide.Looking at the post-war years, Dobbs zeros in on the boatmen who carried goods between the "e;godowns"e; or warehouses along the river and the freighters lying at anchor in the roads. Despite its pollution, the river remained home to a vital community of coolies and tally clerks, and the tumultuous urban life that swirled around them.Today the waterfront community has been relocated. The shophouses and warehouses along the river are now chic cafes and upmarket restaurants, fish have returned to the Singapore River, and urban dwellers stroll on walks along the river's edge.Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Singapore's many transformations during the past two centuries.
Author | : Hian Kee Lee |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 940112664X |
Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Our Environment, held in Singapore, May 21-23, 1990
Author | : Cecilia Tortajada |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0415657822 |
This book describes the journey of Singapore ́s development and the fundamental role that water has had in shaping it. What makes this case so unique is that the quest for self-sufficiency in terms of water availability in a fast-changing urban context has been crucial to the way development policies and agendas have been planned throughout the years.
Author | : Wallace Collins |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2004-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 059531063X |
Orientation: A Journey is an autobiographical account of a group of African American tourists who traveled on a tour to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The writer inserts fictional situations in the book to enable the reader to view the bareback narrative in relation to, or as a divergence from the autobiographical portions of the book. As a reality, these segments in the book are its core that lends itself to the fiction he creates, which propels the writer's rush of awareness, and bares his accelerated consciousness, enabling him to carry the fictitious segments of the book on a non-liner, narrative, course.
Author | : Wallace B. Collins |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2004-05-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595758916 |
Orientation: A Journey is an autobiographical account of a group of African American tourists who traveled on a tour to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The writer inserts fictional situations in the book to enable the reader to view the bareback narrative in relation to, or as a divergence from the autobiographical portions of the book. As a reality, these segments in the book are its core that lends itself to the fiction he creates, which propels the writer's rush of awareness, and bares his accelerated consciousness, enabling him to carry the fictitious segments of the book on a non-liner, narrative, course.