Contesting Space - Power Relations And The Urban Built Environment In Colonial Singapore Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2016) Annotation in pencil on inside

Annotation in pencil on inside of back cover

a group bent on wiping Prodigium off the face of the earth

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Roshani Chokshi

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Contesting Space - Power Relations And The Urban Built Environment In Colonial Singapore Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2016) Annotation in pencil on insideThis book examines the nature of conflict between the colonial authorities, which wanted the city ordered, sanitized, and amenable to regulation, and the Asian communities who lived and worked in colonial Singapore and had their own values, priorities, and resources. The result was anenvironment that embodied and expressed the tensions and negotiations, conflicts, and compromises between the different groups.