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Book Chapter: Modernising Project of Sustainability: The Green and Blue Plans
| Title | Modernising Project of Sustainability: The Green and Blue Plans |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2016 |
| Publisher | Asian Urban Lab |
| Citation | Modernising Project of Sustainability: The Green and Blue Plans. In Wee, HK & Chia, J (Eds.), Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia, p. 64-81. Singapore: Asian Urban Lab, 2016 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | The project of sustainability is highly technocratic, and very much a part of the modernization of Singapore. Modernization has the curious appearance of nature because greening has been rationalized into various forms of social control, political legitimacy, national sovereignty, urban infrastructure, and growth. This paper argues that the policies and implementation of sustainability today is decisively progressivist, bureaucratic, pragmatic, and possibly destructive. In the year of the acclaimed 24-km Green Rail Corridor International Competition, and on the eve of Singapore’s Golden Jubilee SG50 celebrations, there is an urgency in reevaluating the strategies of greening in exerting control over the city. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215851 |
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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Wee, HK | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-21T13:41:46Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2015-08-21T13:41:46Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Modernising Project of Sustainability: The Green and Blue Plans. In Wee, HK & Chia, J (Eds.), Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia, p. 64-81. Singapore: Asian Urban Lab, 2016 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9789810984182 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215851 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | The project of sustainability is highly technocratic, and very much a part of the modernization of Singapore. Modernization has the curious appearance of nature because greening has been rationalized into various forms of social control, political legitimacy, national sovereignty, urban infrastructure, and growth. This paper argues that the policies and implementation of sustainability today is decisively progressivist, bureaucratic, pragmatic, and possibly destructive. In the year of the acclaimed 24-km Green Rail Corridor International Competition, and on the eve of Singapore’s Golden Jubilee SG50 celebrations, there is an urgency in reevaluating the strategies of greening in exerting control over the city. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Asian Urban Lab | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia | - |
| dc.title | Modernising Project of Sustainability: The Green and Blue Plans | - |
| dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Wee, HK: koonwee@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Wee, HK=rp01504 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 249829 | - |
| dc.identifier.spage | 64 | - |
| dc.identifier.epage | 81 | - |
| dc.publisher.place | Singapore | - |