…”the city is an oeuvre, closer to a work of art than to a simple material product.”
Henri Lefebvre
Connotations of ephemeral spaces of consumption:
a case study in Singapore’s Little India
Adriana Gonzalez Brun
Little
India
Little
India
1880s and
1980s
SoHo
or
Theme
park?
Ephemeral spaces of consumption
Ephemeral spaces of consumption
Ephemeral spaces of consumption
Fragments
within
a fragment
Ephemeral
events
that
punctuate
the
official
urban
master plan.
The
product
of
complex
contestations
and
creative
tactics.
Composed
by in between
fragments.
Campbell Lane
Along Serangoon
Road
Street astrologer
Thank you
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