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Urban and Regional Technology Planning
Author: Kenneth E. Corey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-08-21
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1135992347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of the popular "Networked Cities" series, this title focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society. It is designed for scholars, practitioners, and decision makers involved in this planning.
Developing Living Cities
Author: Kallidaikurichi Seetharam
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9814304492
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is an important and timely book. With half of humanity living in cities, our future will depend on how well we manage our cities. This book poses six inter-generational challenges to cities. If a city deals successfully with them, it will become a living, thriving, prosperous and delightful place to live, work and visit." Prof Tommy Koh Chairman, Governing Council, Asia Pacific Water Forum --
The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore
Author: Terence Lee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-05-06
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1136978569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the thoughts and conduct of Singaporeans. It establishes the conceptual links between government and the practice of cultural policy, arguing that contemporary cultural policy in Singapore has been designed to shape citizens into accepting and participating in the rationales of government. Outlining the historical development of cultural policy, including the recent expansion of cultural regulatory and administrative practices into the ‘creative industries’, Terence Lee analyzes the attempts by the Singaporean authorities to engage with civil society, the ways in which the media is used to market the PAP’s policies and leadership and the implications of the internet for the practice of governmental control. Overall, The Media, Cultural Control and Government in Singapore offers an original approach towards the rethinking of the relationship between media, culture and politics in Singapore, demonstrating that the many contradictory discourses around Singapore only make sense once the politics and government of the media and culture are understood.
Report of the Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts
Author: Singapore. Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Naga Challenged
Author: Victor R. Savage
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a sequel to The Naga Awakens: Growth and Change in Southeast Asia, published in 1997. While the 1997 book looked at the positive developments in the region, this book addresses the political, economic and cultural issues arising from the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis. Six years since the crisis, the region has been plagued by other issues such as the haze, SARS, avian influenza and terrorism. The global political and economic landscape has also changed radically after the 9/11 attack and the Iraq war. Unfortunately, after the fall of Suharto in 1998, the ASEAN lost its leadership and the organization floundered without much regional coherence. All these global and regional events have affected the developmental trajectories and political developments of states in the region. Economically, Southeast Asia has been overshadowed by the dynamic economic prowess of China and India in the last five years and there have been serious reservations by Southeast Asian political leader
Future of Space
Author: Giok Ling Ooi
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the politics and rationale of spatial planning, and the social processes involved in providing and shaping urban space-industrial, residential, retail, public space-in Singapore. Besides considering the meaning of urban space to the citizenry, future space implications and current international research concerns are highlighted.
Journalism and Democracy in Asia
Author: Michael Bromley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1134254148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJournalism and Democracy in Asia addresses key issues of freedom, democracy, citizenship, openness and journalism in contemporary Asia, looking especially at China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and India. The authors take varying approaches to questions of democracy, whilst also considering journalism in print, radio and new media, in relation to such questions as the role of social, political and economic liberalization in bringing about a blooming of the media, the relationship between the media and the development of democracy and civil society, and how journalism copes under authoritarian rule. With contributions from highly regarded experts in the region examining a broad range of issues from across Asia, this book will be of high interest to students and scholars in political communications, journalism and mass communication and Asian studies.
Media and Cultural Transformation in China
Author: Haiqing Yu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-02-24
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1134062265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity that is essential to the post-socialist reform agenda. It describes how the Party-state can effectively use media events to pull social, cultural and political resources and forces together in the name of national rejuvenation. However, it also illustrates how non-state actors can also use reporting of media events to dispute official narratives and advance their own interests and perspectives. It discusses the implications of this interplay between state and non-state actors in the Chinese media for conceptions of identity, citizenship and ethics, identifying the areas of mutual accommodation and appropriation, as well as those of conflict and contestation. It explores these themes with detailed analysis of four important ‘media spectacles’: the media events surrounding the new millennium celebrations; the news reporting of SARS; the media stories about AIDS and SARS; and the media campaign war between the Chinese state and the Falun Gong movement.
