Resumen de Defining Singapore Public Space: From Sanitization to Corporatization
Singapore's built environment history demonstrates three areas worthy of consideration in the defining of public space within the island state-one of contesting space through dominant (colonial or state)/subservient (local community) power relationships in colonial and post-colonial Singapore; one of the reclamation and re-colonization of space; and finally the privatization of public space and the relationship between corporation and civil society.The homogenous, correspondent approach to designthat sought to keep things apart in colonial and post-colonial Singapore has given way to an increasingly non-correspondent approach to design that attracts spatial and transpatial groupings in the state's drive to put things together. Paradoxically, however, the increasingly heterogeneous city is being served and interlinked by a continuumof privatized public space that is being controlled by dominant corporate powerswith explicit rules of exclusion and usage, socially sanitizing space for more themed civil appropriation.
