Curated resources for the contest
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Useful Links
If you need to know more about urban spaces and development in Singapore to help with the creative process, check out some of these resources from the National Library and the National Archives:
“Former Supreme Court, 1984,” National Archives of Singapore, published 20 Nov 2015.
“Map of Tiong Bahru for SIT Flats, c.,1920,” National Archives of Singapore, published 13 Mar 2015.
“Tiong Bahru: Exploring Singapore’s First Housing Estate,” BiblioAsia 8, no. 2 (Jul 2012).
“Urban Redevelopment,” LearnX, accessed 22 May 2025.
“Video of Singapore Street Scenes, 1960,” National Archives of Singapore, published 27 Nov 2015.
Fiona Tan, “Over Orchard,” BiblioAsia 10, no. 3 (Oct-Dec 2014).
Janice Loo, “Our Home Sweet Home,” BiblioAsia 14, no. 2 (Jul-Sep 2018).
Julian Davidson, “On the Waterfront: The Making of Singapore’s First High-rise Skyline, 1918-1928,” BiblioAsia 8, no. 2 (Jul 2012).
Justin Zhuang, “Golden Mile Complex: Five Decades of an Architectural Icon,” BiblioAsia 19, no. 2. (Jul-Sep 2023).
Kevin Tan, “A History of the Padang,” BiblioAsia, 18, no. 1 (Apr-Jun 2022).
Lim Tin Seng, “From Land to Sand: Singapore’s Reclamation Story,” BiblioAsia 13, no. 1 (Apr-Jun 2017).
Lim Tin Seng, “To Wreck or Recreate: Giving New Life to Singapore’s Built Heritage,” BiblioAsia 15, no. 2 (Jul-Sep 2019).
Lim Tin Seng, A Librarian's World: A Colony’s Pursuit for Land: Singapore’s Land Reclamation Story Before Independence [video recording], 2023.
Lu Wenshi, “Old Singapore: Places in Pictures and Oral History,” BiblioAsia 9, no. 4 (Jan-Mar 2014).
Makeswary Periasamy, “The Story of Sembawang from 19th-century Singapore Maps,” BiblioAsia 20, no. 4 (Jan-Mar 2024).
National Archives of Singapore, “Historical Buildings,” Stories of Yesteryear: Singapore in the 1960s. Mewatch, accessed Jul 2025.
National Archives of Singapore, “Raffles Place,” Stories of Yesteryear: Singapore in the 1960s. Mewatch, accessed Jul 2025.
National Archives of Singapore, “Singapore Landmarks,” Stories of Yesteryear: Singapore in the 1960s. Mewatch, accessed Jul 2025.
S.U.R.E., Looking at the Big Picture: Housing in Singapore.
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, “Public Housing, Private Lives,” BiblioAsia 12, no. 3 (Oct-Dec 2016).