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The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore
No full textBy 1970, Singapore’s urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the People’s Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regime’s ‘emergency’ programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAP’s far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fire’s symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAP’s new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nation’s progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fire’s role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
DVB-T2 reception in Jurong HDB estate - part i
No full textDVB-T2 is the most advanced digital terrestrial television system, which is regarded as an extension of the previous existing standard DVB-T. It can make a better use of spectral resources; provide better additional bit rate and offer more robustness, flexibility and at least 50% more efficiency than other DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) system. The specification is developed primarily for fixed rooftop reception antennas, and it has an identical frequency spectrum channel characteristics like DVB-T so that it enables the compatibility with the existing transmission infrastructure.
The project that the author was enrolled in will research on the technology of DVB-T2 and the potential factors, which influence the performance of the digital TV signal reception. By analysis all the effects, the results of the project would be useful for improving the quality of digital TV. All the experiments was implemented in Jurong area HDB estate and the NTU campus. This project consists of two main parts: the indoor measurement and the outdoor measurement. The final results show that a better antenna and a better test location will result in greater signal reception level.Bachelor of Engineerin
Weakly dense subsets of the measure algebra
No full textPT: J; CR: CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CICHON J, 1985, P AM MATH SOC, V94, P142 FREMLIN D, 1977, 2 THEOREMS MOKOBODZK FREMLIN DH, 1984, MATHEMATIKA, V31, P323 GOFFMAN C, 1953, REAL FUNCTIONS HALMOS PR, 1950, MEASURE THEORY HODEL, 1984, HDB SET THEORETIC TO JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY KUNEN K, 1980, SET THEORY MAGIDOR M, 1977, ISRAEL J MATH, V28, P1 MAHARAM D, 1942, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V28, P108 OXTOBY JC, 1971, MEASURE CATEGORY RUDIN W, 1983, AM MATH MON, V90, P41 SIKORSKI R, 1964, BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS VANDOUWEN E, IN PRESS HDB BOOLEAN; NR: 15; TC: 3; J9: PROC AMER MATH SOC; PG: 9; GA: AR774Source type: Electronic(1
A note on measurability and almost continuity
No full textPT: J; CR: FREMLIN DH, 1981, MANUSCRIPTA MATH, V33, P387 KUNEN K, 1984, HDB SET THEORETIC TO; NR: 2; TC: 0; J9: PROC AMER MATH SOC; PG: 2; GA: N3391Source type: Electronic(1
Bounded sets in topological vector spaces
No full textPT: J; CR: AMEMIYA I, 1957, P JAPAN ACAD, V33, P169 AMIMIYA I, 1968, MATH ANN, V177, P273 CARRERAS PP, 1987, BARRELLED LOCALLY CO DIESTEL J, 1984, SEQUENCES SERIES BAN DIEUDONNE J, 1955, P AM MATH SOC, V6, P729 FICHTENHOLZ G, 1935, STUD MATH, V5, P69 GOWERS WT, IN PRESS J AM MATH S GROTHENDIECK A, 1954, SUMMA BRASIL MATH, V3, P57 KETONEN J, 1974, FUND MATH, V81, P291 KOMURA Y, 1964, MATH ANN, V153, P150 KOTHE G, 1966, TOPOLOGICAL VECTOR S, V1 KUNEN K, 1980, SET THEORY KUNEN K, 1984, HDB SET THEORETIC TO, P887 LINDENSTRAUSS J, 1977, CLASSICAL BANACH SPA, V1 MYCIELSKI J, 1964, FUND MATH, V55, P139 NEGREPONTIS S, 1984, HDB SET THEORETIC TO, P1045 OXTOBY JC, 1980, MEASURE CATEGORY ROBERTSON AP, 1973, TOPOLOGICAL VECTOR S RYLLNARDZEWSKI C, 1962, C MATH, V9, P93 SAXON S, 1971, P AM MATH SOC, V29, P91 SAZON SA, OPTIMAL CARDINALS ME TODORCEVIC S, 1985, T AM MATH SOC, V290, P711 TODORCEVIC S, 1989, CONT MATH, V84 TUKEY JW, 1940, ANN MATH STUDIES, V2 TWEDDLE I, 1984, J LOND MATH SOC, V29, P276 VALDIVIA M, 1971, ANN I FOURIER, V21, P3 VANDOUWEN EK, 1984, HDB SET THEORETIC TO, P111 VANMILL J, 1986, TOPOL APPL, V22, P267; NR: 28; TC: 0; J9: MATH ANN; PG: 23; GA: UL492Source type: Electronic(1
Sets on which measurable functions are determined by their range
No full textWe study sets on which measurable real-valued functions on a measurable space with negligibles are determined by their range.PT: J; CR: BELLA A, 1990, B UNIONE MAT ITAL, V7, P121 BERARDUCCI A, 1993, REND I MAT U TRIESTE, V25, P23 BUCHI JR, 1954, FUND MATH, V41, P97 BURKE MR, UNPUB SETS RANGE UNI CIESIELSKI K, MODEL NO MAGIC SET CIESIELSKI K, 1994, MEM AM MATH SOC, V107 CORAZZA P, 1989, T AM MATH SOC, V316, P115 DIAMOND HG, 1981, MATH Z, V176, P383 DUSHNIK B, 1941, AM J MATH, V63, P600 ENGELKING R, 1989, SIGMA SER PURE MATH, V6 FREMLIN DH, 1987, DISSERTATIONES MATH, V260 JECH T, 1978, SET THEORY JUST W, 1992, T AM MATH SOC, V329, P325 KUNEN K, 1983, SET THEORY KUNEN K, 1984, HDB SET THEORETIC TO, P887 MILLER A, 1981, T AM MATH SOC, V266, P93 MILLER AW, 1983, J SYMBOLIC LOGIC, V48, P575 MILLER AW, 1984, HDB SET THEORETIC TO, P201 OXTOBY JC, 1980, GRADUATE TEXTS MATH ROYDEN HL, 1988, REAL ANAL RUDIN W, 1987, REAL COMPLEX ANAL SHELAH S, 1980, J SYMBOLIC LOGIC, V45, P563 TALL FD, 1976, PAC J MATH, V62, P275 TODORCEVIC S, 1989, CONT MATH, V84; NR: 24; TC: 6; J9: CAN J MATH; PG: 28; GA: ZC631Source type: Electronic(1
Linear liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textWe show that it is consistent with ZFC that L(infinity)(Y, B, upsilon) has no linear lifting for many non-complete probability spaces (Y, B, upsilon), in particular for Y = [0, 1]A, B = Borel subsets of Y, upsilon = usual Radon measure on B.PT: J; CR: BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 FREMLIN DH, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRA, P877 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S MATHIAS ARD, 1977, ANN MATH LOGIC, V12, P59 SHELAH S, 1982, PROPER FORCING SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TULCEA AI, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN; NR: 7; TC: 1; J9: ISR J MATH; PG: 8; GA: KQ705Source type: Electronic(1
Liftings for Haar measure on {0,1}k
No full textWe call E subset-of-or-is-equal-to {0,1}kappa projective if for some countable A subset-of-or-is-equal-to kappa there is an E(A) subset-of-or-is-equal-to {0,1}A such that E = E(A) x {0,1}kappa/A and E(A) is a projective subset of the Cantor set {0,1}A. We construct a model where Haar measure on {0,1}kappa has no projective lifting (and in particular no Baire lifting) for any kappa greater-than-or-equal-to omega.PT: J; CR: FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90; NR: 5; TC: 3; J9: ISR J MATH; PG: 12; GA: GG100Source type: Electronic(1
シンガポールにおける「総団地化社会」成立の諸過程に関する社会学研究に向けた一考察 : シンガポール改良信託団地から
No full textDepartmental Bulletin PaperThe aims of this sociological study is to examine
the social process to realize the
unprecedented society where more than eighty
percent of the population must live in public
housing estates under the public housing authority
of the Housing and Development
Board (HDB) in Singapore, and to explore the
interaction between the nation and the state.
Interaction and struggle have existed between
the housing authority and the estate residents,
and this has had a direct relation on nationbuilding
in Singapore. As the first step forward,
this paper focuses on the public housing estates
developed by Singapore Improvement Trust
(SIT), which was the predecessor of HDB and
operating from 1927 to 1960.
An examination of earlier research on SIT
reveals that no sociological studies have been
conducted on SIT, but there was a study done
in the field of public administration that compared
SIT and HDB, with the formulation
that SIT was inferior to HDB, an organization
that has contributed to the nation-building and
success of Singapore. This formulation is same
as the one created by HDB, and has become
absolute in a society where most of the population
must live in estates under HDB.
However, the fieldwork undertaken by the
author on the SIT flats that remain reveals that
they continue to serve as very good housing
and are excellent places to reside. Some literature
on the SIT flats demolished by HDB also
indicate that they were very good to live in.
Many Singaporeans also express concern about
the housing, and some interesting movements
are occurring there now.
To grasp the work of SIT it is necessary to
maintain a distance from the absolute formulati
on and exami n e i t in d e ta i l u s ing
contemporary materials of those days when the
housing estates were being developed by SIT.
This will help examine the process of developing
public housing estates in Singapore and
take a step forward in the sociological study of
the interaction between the nation and the
state.彦根論叢, 第404号, pp. 16-31The Hikone Ronso, No.404, pp. 16-31departmental bulletin pape
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