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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore
Author: The Gardens' Bulletin
Author: Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States
Author: The Gardens' Bulletin
Author: Postcolonial Urbanism
Author: Ryan BishopPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136060502
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi, and the Philippines. Offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts, Postcolonial Urbanism presents a panoramic view of the cultures, societies, and politics of the postcolonial city.
Nature's Colony
Author: Timothy P BarnardPublisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN: 9814722456
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has served as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and a testing ground for tropical plantation crops. Each function has its own story, while the Gardens also fuel an underlying narrative of the juncture of administrative authority and the natural world. Created to help exploit natural resources for the British Empire, the Gardens became contested ground in conflicts involving administrators and scientists that reveal shifting understandings of power, science and nature in Singapore and in Britain. This continued after independence, when the Gardens featured in the "e;greening"e; of the nation-state, and became Singapore's first World Heritage Site. Positioning the Singapore Botanic Gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature's colony-a place where plants were collected, classified and cultivated to change our understanding of the region and world.
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Author: Simulation Models, GIS and Nonpoint-source Pollution
Author: David HollowayPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Paulownia, Potential Tree Crop, 1970-1987
Author: Evelyn A. BrownleePublisher:
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Category : Paulownia
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Imported fire ant, 1983-May 1987
Author: Evelyn A. BrownleePublisher:
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Category : Fire ants
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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