From Global City to ‘City of Villages’: Tracing the State Discourse of Cosmopolitanism in Modern Singaporean History

Clark, Justin T.

doi:10.1080/07256868.2019.1628718

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“…The rise of cosmopolitanism as an ideal and as imagery began in Singapore in the late 1990s when the ambition to become a global city was made clear (Clark, 2019; Yeoh, 2004). In the 1999 National Day Rally Speech, the former Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Goh Chok Tong made an explicit statement of the city-state’s vision to be a ‘first world economy and world-class home’ (National Archives Singapore, 1999).…”

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Deciphering the ‘cosmopolitan grid’: The production of space in diversifying heartland neighbourhoods of Singapore

Chan,

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2023

Urban Studies

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Global capital and highly-skilled international labour are sought by cities for economic growth. Much research has been about Western cities, but less is known about how pro-growth developmental Asian countries, which have become key global hubs, organise their urban planning and policy efforts to gain global capital and skilled labour in their cities. In Singapore, the state is active in reshaping the city into a ‘cosmopolitan grid’ by planning and developing new urban amenity spaces that can attract human capital to fuel the desired urban growth, such as international schools, private housing options, and access to a global selection of goods and services. Oftentimes, the socio-cultural and socio-spatial changes at the neighbourhood level are seemingly ignored, despite the significance of the neighbourhood as a critical social space for the daily practice and formation of social relations in demographically diverse cities. Drawing on cognitive mapping interviews with foreign-born and native-born residents in two upper-middle income suburban neighbourhoods in Singapore, which are recognised as the heartlands of the native-born but have become popular with highly-skilled foreign-born families (namely Western expatriates) in the last decade, this article shows how the top-down rational production of cosmopolitan space by the state framed in a formation of the ‘cosmopolitan grid’ has played out and shaped the everyday production of social space among the native and foreign-born residents which determines the experience and opportunities for integration in this city-state.

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Section: Production Of the ‘Cosmopolitan Grid’: Immigration Race Infr...mentioning

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Deciphering the ‘cosmopolitan grid’: The production of space in diversifying heartland neighbourhoods of Singapore

Chan,

Low

2023

Urban Studies

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Parallel Spaces of Migrant (Non-)Integration in Singapore: Latent Politics of Distance and Difference Within a Diverse Christian Community

Woods

Kong

2020

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Still Perceived and Managed as ‘Disamenities’: Covid-19's Limited Impact on Singapore's Migrant Workers’ Urban Citizenship

huang

2023

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From Global City to ‘City of Villages’: Tracing the State Discourse of Cosmopolitanism in Modern Singaporean History

Cited by 3 publications

References 36 publications

Deciphering the ‘cosmopolitan grid’: The production of space in diversifying heartland neighbourhoods of Singapore

Deciphering the ‘cosmopolitan grid’: The production of space in diversifying heartland neighbourhoods of Singapore

Parallel Spaces of Migrant (Non-)Integration in Singapore: Latent Politics of Distance and Difference Within a Diverse Christian Community

Still Perceived and Managed as ‘Disamenities’: Covid-19's Limited Impact on Singapore's Migrant Workers’ Urban Citizenship

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