Squatters into citizens : the 1961 Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore
Digitised Book 216.73.216.191 (0)
2013
Information About
The author draws on oral history interviews, official records and media reports to examine the catastrophic Bukit Ho Swee fire on 25 May 1961 and steps taken by the new government of the People’s Action Party in response to the disaster. He also narrates the daily life of squatters in Bukit Ho Swee and shows the immediate consequences of the fire and how relocation to public housing changes their lives.
Additional Details
- Title
- Squatters into citizens : the 1961 Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore
- Creators
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- Loh, Kah Seng
- Subject
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- Bukit Ho Swee Fire, Singapore, 1961
- Public housing--Singapore
- Housing policy--Singapore
- Publisher
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- National Library Board Singapore, 2013
- NUS Press , 2013
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill., maps
- Table of Contents
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- catalyst for modern Singapore -- Chapter 2. Hopeful migrants in the urban kampongs -- Chapter 3. A “black area” -- Chapter 4. “A roar from the oppressed people” -- Chapter 5. Fires and experiments with emergency housing -- Chapter 6. The inferno -- Chapter 7. State of emergency -- Chapter 8. Nine months -- Chapter 9. Bukit Ho Swee estate -- Chapter 10. Memory, myth and identity -- Conclusion. Fire, emergency and high modernism -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Index.
- Copyright
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- All rights reserved. Loh Kah Seng, NUS Press, 2013