Urbanizing Islands
A Critical History of Singapore's Offshore Islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Creighton Connolly (0000-0002-4782-2621, corresponding author), Hamzah Muzaini (0000-0002-5634-5783, National University of Singapore) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 2172-2192 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/25148486211051082 |
| OpenAlex | W4200463742 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 34 |
While Singapore is often considered an island city in the singular sense, the city-state actually consists of many islands, with the Singapore mainland being by far the largest. While most of these islands traditionally had thriving indigenous communities, all have since been displaced over time as the islands were developed to service Singapore's economic and metabolic needs as a rapidly urbanizing and developing nation. Some of the islands have also undergone considerable transformation (through reclamation) which has had significant impacts on the ecologies of the offshore islands. This simultaneously allowed for the 'ruralization' of mainland Singapore to provide more green space for nature conservation, recreation and leisure. This paper will provide a brief history of these transformations, drawing on specific examples which serve to illustrate how Singapore's offshore islands have been redeveloped over time to service the nation-state and in response to the changing needs of the urban core. In doing so, the paper examines how spaces on the urban periphery are deeply bound up with processes of 'urbanization', given their important role in processes of urban metabolism. In this way, the paper contributes to recent work in urban political ecology which has sought to trace processes of urbanization beyond the city and render visible the socio-environmental inequalities produced therein
Archaeology · China · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Economy · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Geography · Human settlement · Indigenous · Mainland · Mainland China · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Recreation · Service (business · Urban planning · Urbanization · Engineering · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology
Suffocating cities
Concrete and Clay
In the Nature of Cities
Urban geographies I
Making Ground, Losing Space
The New Imperialism
Challenging the developmental state
Evolution of the petrochemical industry in Singapore
Land reclamation in Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau
Uneven urban metabolisms
Toward an agentic understanding of the urban metabolism
In the Nature of the Non‐City
Geologising Urban Political Ecology (UPE)
Triangulating the borderless world
Living it up
Political ecology III
Deindustrial Chicago and the Ruralization of The Jungle
Circulations and metabolisms
Hidden Abodes
Conduct of Conduits
Between Fixity and Motion
Hydrosocial hinterlands
Global City Frontiers
Fetishizing the modern city
Unwrapping the OXO Cube
Urban Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism
The Ruralization of the World
Theses on Urbanization
Landscape political ecologies of urban 'swiftlet farming' in George Town, Malaysia
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |