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Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2013.. Black and white photographic illustrations, xxvii + 315 pp, index, bibliography, glossary, paperback. "The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces of their historical influence on the life in the city-state. In one such settlement, located in an area known as Bukit Ho Swee, a great fire in 1961 destroyed the kampong and left 16,000 people homeless, creating a national emergency that led to the first big public housing project of the new Housing and Development Board (HDB). HDB flats now house more than four-fifths of the Singapore population, making the aftermath of the Bukit Ho Swee fire a seminal event in modern Singapore. Loh Kah Seng grew up in one-room rental flats in the HDB estate built after the fire. Drawing on oral history interviews, official records and media reports, he describes daily life in squatter communities and how people coped with the hazard…
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Squatters Into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore Paperback - 2013
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- Title Squatters Into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore
- Author Seng, Loh Kah
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- Language ENG
- Publisher NUS Press, Singapore.
- Date 2013.
- ISBN 9789971696450 / 9971696452
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.570
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Singapore: NUS Press, 2013. Paperback. New. Probably few now realise the importance of the importance of the 1961 fire that made 16,000 residents of the Bukit Ho Swee squatter settlement homeless. The new Government reacted by using the Housing and Development Board (HDB) to set up its first public housing project, the famous HDB flats which house about four fifths of Singapore's population today. The author grew up as a beneficiary of this project and uses that as a basis for looking back at the dangers of squatter life, the fire and what followed. New Paperback. 315 pages with a bibliography, index and some black and white plates. Weight: 0.7 kg Post free within Malaysia
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