ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTRIBUTORS

The creation, planning and execution of the Singapore Metropolitan Region started in 2008 on an overseas study tour to Dubai. Following Singapore Trasncripts (2010) and Singapore Probes (2011), Singapore Metropolitan Region (2012) is the third volume of research about Singapore and the larger region in which it sits. Each book is assembled by thesis students under the concept and design direction by Assistant Professor, Erik G. L’Heureux. For more information, concept proposals, or contributions, please write to: akierik@ nus.edu.sg or go to www.smsstudios.com. Singapore Metropolitian Studio (www.smsstudio.org) is an online extension of the research as an digital vehicle to curate these the larger issues facing Singapore and the spaces and geographies about this larger territory.

We would like to thanks the following institutions for assistance and coursey of incorporating maps to incubate the completion of this work:

National University of Singapore (NUS); Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture (NUS); Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Singapore; National Library Board Singapore (NLB); The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA); National Archives of Singapore (NAS); National Archives of Malaysia (NAM); National Archives of Australia (NAA); Google Earth, Google Inc; Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam; Koh Seow Chuan; Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.

Appreciation is extended to the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore. Thanks goes to Head of the Department, Dr. Wong Yunn Chii. We would also like to thanks the following individuals for support, inspiration, and shared dialogue: Dr. Johannes Widodo (NUS), Chng Yak Hock (NAS), Clarence Foo Chun Fung, Epiphanie Lie, Chia Xian Fang Patricia.

Special thanks to: Freek Colombijn, Lai Chee Kien, Chua Beng Huat, Tim Bunnel, and François Decoster.

Book Concept & Editor: Erik G. L’Heureux

Design Editing & Coordination: Chua Gong Yao

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Freek Colombijn

Freek Colombijn is co-supervisor of the PhD theses of Inge Melchior (on: nationalism and the politics of memory in Estland) and Anonymous (on Burma). The main topic of his current research is the nexus between urban social inequality, environmental awareness and consumptive behaviour in Indonesia. He writes about the social consequences of decolonisation in Indonesia (1930-1960) and the human-made environmental changes in Sumatra (1600-1870). He was awarded the Professor Teeuw Award 2007, in appreciation of his cooperation with young Indonesian scholars in urban studies

Lai Chee Kien

Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Dr Lai is at home in Southeast Asia, and relishes the histories of its art, architecture, settlements, urbanism, and landscapes. He muses on their ineluctable effects on contemporary life, and traverses its times and spaces whenever he can.

Chua Beng Huat

Professor Chua Beng Huat, a Singaporean, obtained his PhD from York University, Toronto, Canada. He has held visiting professorships at universities in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, Australia and the US. During his recent Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fellowship at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he delivered the Inaugural Lecture of the Carolina Asia Center. Professor Chua is a Provost Professor and the Head of the Department of Sociology at National University of Singapore (NUS). He is concurrently the Cluster Leader of the Cultural Studies in Asia program at Asia Research Institute (ARI).

Tim Bunnell

Dr. Tim Bunnell is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore. He is a principal investigator on a comparative ethnographic research project on urban aspirations in Asia and in mid-2009 he began a joint appointment with the Asia Research Institute (ARI). His role in ARI’s Asian Urbanisms research cluster, has revolved around efforts to position Asia as a ‘frontier’ of urban theory.

François Decoster

l’AUC Architects and Urbanists (François Decoster, Caroline Poulin and Djamel Klouche) advocate an approach to typological urbanism that they refer to as ‘urbanism of substance’. They have worked on several urban regeneration projects particularly in the context of industrial or social housing.