Singapore’s lost coast: land reclamation, national development and the erasure of human and ecological communities, 1822–present

• Main Author: Powell, Miles Alexander
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History; Anthropocene; Singapore
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157063
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Beginning during the colonial period, and greatly accelerating following inde-pendence in 1965, Singapore has used land reclamation to increase its national domain by nearly 25 per cent. The construction of new land was a key com-ponent of the nation’s celebrated rise from ‘third world’ to ‘first wo...