The Transnational Assembling of M arina B ay, S ingapore

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20153201
AutoresErica X Y Yap (Department of Geography National University of Singapore, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume34
Fascículo3
Páginas390-406
Data de publicação2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjtg.12032
OpenAlexW1509164563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas33

From S hanghai's P udong to D ubai's M arina, waterfront developments are increasingly popular urban forms worldwide. Drawing on the literature on urban assemblages, I explore how urban waterfronts are produced out of the transnational assembling of models, knowledge and expertise. My case study here is Marina Bay, Singapore, a landscape that like much of the rest of S ingapore is a product of talent and ideas from elsewhere. In this paper, two strategies employed by S ingapore's urban authorities to court global expertise for M arina B ay's development are examined – their formation of an international panel of experts in the fields of urban planning, policy and design, and their launching of international competitions to attract top design firms. Like transfer agents that enable policies to travel, I argue that these individuals and firms are situated within wider knowledge circuits that straddle the globe, and are thus well placed to filter and channel ideas from elsewhere to S ingapore. Drawing on selected developments within M arina B ay, I trace the routes taken by these ideas, the changes they underwent as they travelled, as well as their relationships with the actors that facilitated their journeys. In doing so, I hope to demonstrate the usefulness of understanding the urban as more‐than‐territorial in both theory and practice

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