Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High‐Rise Housing in Singapore

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Jacobs, Jane M. (Autor:in) / Cairns, Stephen (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 79-95

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

17 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch8

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

ecologies of dwelling ‐ and high‐rise housing in Singapore , mechanized systems of vigilance and surveillance ‐ in Singapore housing assemblage, emergency elevator maintenance and repair , Singaporean high‐rise, novel housing system ‐ restructuring the built environment , Splintering Urbanism, its commitment ‐ nature of infrastructures and nature of cities , spate of urban scholarship ‐ influenced by actor–network theory (ANT) , Science and Technology Studies (STS), from Bruno Latour ‐ Singapore, reassembling the city , STS approach to city, revisiting urban transformation ‐ modernist‐inspired, state‐sponsored, high‐rise housing program of post‐independence Singapore , socio‐technical housing, points of convergence ‐ STS approaches and housing studies , neglected urban spatiality, repair and maintenance ‐ noted by Stephen Graham and Nigel Thrift , studies, socio‐technical analytical frameworks ‐ to urban infrastructure of housing