Squatters Into Citizens: The 1961 Bukhit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore by Loh Kah Seng

Squatters Into Citizens: The 1961 Bukhit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore

ASAA Southeast Asian Publications Series

Loh Kah Seng

315 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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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 ...

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