Selective disclosure: Romancing the Singapore river

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 77-108

  Huang, Shirlena ^a,b   Chang, T C ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812791283_0005     Document Type: Chapter

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