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

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Powell, Miles Alexander
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2022
• الموضوعات: Humanities::History; Anthropocene; Singapore
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157063
• المؤسسة: 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...