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Peripheral Land No More? Fetishisms of Space and Case Studies of the Green Rail Corridor and Clementi Forest

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This chapter examines the case study of an iconic peripheral, underdeveloped and partially forested space in Singapore, which is the Green Rail Corridor. This will be the first case study of an abandoned space in Singapore in this volume, contrasting with the highly-developed and urbanized Civic District and Tiong Bahru areas discussed in the second and third chapters of this publication. The Green Rail Corridor and the Clementi Forest are the quintessential spaces to discuss and examine Henri Lefebvre’s ideas found in his seminal work The Urban Revolution.

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    Lefebvre, Henri, The Urban Revolution (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press), 2003, p. xv.

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    Lefebvre, Henri, The Urban Revolution (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press), 2003, p. 4.

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    Lefebvre, Henri, The Urban Revolution (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press), 2003, p. xvi.

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    Lefebvre, Henri, The Urban Revolution (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press), 2003, p. 3.

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    Lefebvre, Henri, The Urban Revolution (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press), 2003, p. xxii.

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    Lefebvre, Henri, The Urban Revolution (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press), 2003, p. 27.

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    Neo, Louise, Alex T.K. Yee, K.Y. Chong and Hugh T.W. Tan, “The Vascular Plant Flora of Abandoned Plantations in Singapore I: Clementi Forest”, 17 October 2012, Nature in Singapore 2012, 5 (Singapore: NUS), 2012, p. 275.

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    Nico, Leo, Pamela J. Schofield, Matt Neilson and Bill Loftus, “Poecilia sphenops Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1846”, 17 June 2015, US Department of the Interior US Geological Survey (USGS) website [downloaded on 22 June 2015], available at http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=864.

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    Lim, Kelvin K.P. and Jeffrey Y.K. Low, “Green Molly”, undated, Habitat News website [downloaded on 22 June 2015] (Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research and Singapore Science Centre), available at http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/marinefish/text/245.htm.

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    Lim, Kelvin K.P. and Jeffrey Y.K. Low, “Some fishy trivia”, undated, Habitat News website [downloaded on 22 June 2015] (Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research and Singapore Science Centre), available at http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/marinefish/text/107.htm.

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    Lim, Kelvin K.P. and Jeffrey Y.K. Low, “Green Molly”, undated, Habitat News website [downloaded on 22 June 2015] (Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research and Singapore Science Centre), available at http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/marinefish/text/245.htm.

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    Neo, Louise, Alex T.K. Yee, K.Y. Chong and Hugh T.W. Tan, “The Vascular Plant Flora of Abandoned Plantations in Singapore I: Clementi Forest”, 17 October 2012, Nature in Singapore 2012, 5 (Singapore: NUS), 2012, pp. 275–283.

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    Neo, Louise, Alex T.K. Yee, K.Y. Chong and Hugh T.W. Tan, “The Vascular Plant Flora of Abandoned Plantations in Singapore I: Clementi Forest”, 17 October 2012, Nature in Singapore 2012, 5 (Singapore: NUS), 2012, pp. 275–283.

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    Nature Society (Singapore), “Feedback on the Updated URA Master Plan (November 2013)”, 19 December 2013, Nature Society (Singapore) website [downloaded on 1 June 2015], available at http://www.nss.org.sg/report/d265090c-7Nature%20Society%C2%B9s%20Feedback%20on%20the%20Updated%20URA%20Master%20Plan%20(final).pdf, p. 8.

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    Lefebvre, Henri, The Urban Revolution (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press), 2003, p. 18.

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    Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), “History: Brief History of Railways in Singapore”, 2011, URA website [downloaded on 4 June 2015], available at http://www.ura.gov.sg/railcorridor/history.html.

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    Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), “History: Brief History of Railways in Singapore”, 2011, URA website [downloaded on 4 June 2015], available at http://www.ura.gov.sg/railcorridor/history.html.

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    Groundswell Events Pte Ltd Green Corridor Run, “Green Corridor Run”, 2015, Green Corridor Run website [downloaded on 4 June 2015], available at http://www.greencorridorrun.com.sg/.

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    Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), “History: Brief History of Railways in Singapore”, 2011, URA website [downloaded on 4 June 2015], available at http://www.ura.gov.sg/railcorridor/history.html.

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    Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), “History: Brief History of Railways in Singapore”, 2011, URA website [downloaded on 4 June 2015], available at http://www.ura.gov.sg/railcorridor/history.html.

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    Tan, Bonny, “Railway in Singapore”, Singapore Infopedia [downloaded on 2 June 2015], available at http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_953_2005-01-25.html?v=1&utm_expid=85360850-6.qNOOYF40RhKK6gXsQEaAJA.1&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.sg%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26frm%3D1%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D9%26ved%3D0CFgQFjAI%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Feresources.nlb.gov.sg%252Finfopedia%252Farticles%252FSIP_953_2005-01-25.html%26ei%3DukRtVYjVBM6QuATD54OwCg%26usg%3DAFQjCNGA1WnQYGF5fsO1UVaoUP5Lb8wLcg.

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    Tan, Bonny, “Railway in Singapore”, Singapore Infopedia [downloaded on 2 June 2015], available at http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_953_2005-01-25.html?v=1&utm_expid=85360850-6.qNOOYF40RhKK6gXsQEaAJA.1&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.sg%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26frm%3D1%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D9%26ved%3D0CFgQFjAI%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Feresources.nlb.gov.sg%252Finfopedia%252Farticles%252FSIP_953_2005-01-25.html%26ei%3DukRtVYjVBM6QuATD54OwCg%26usg%3DAFQjCNGA1WnQYGF5fsO1UVaoUP5Lb8wLcg.

  31. 31.

    City Form Lab, “50 ways to the Singapore Rail Corridor”, City Form Lab website [downloaded on 3 June 2015], available at http://cityform.mit.edu/projects/50.

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    Note: Some sources, such as City Form Lab, indicate the total length of the Green Rail Corridor as being 26 km.

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    Nature Society (Singapore), “About”, The Green Corridor website [downloaded on 2 June 2015], available at http://www.thegreencorridor.org/about/.

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    City Form Lab, “50 ways to the Singapore Rail Corridor”, City Form Lab website [downloaded on 3 June 2015], available at http://cityform.mit.edu/projects/50.

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    Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), “History: Brief History of Railways in Singapore”, 2011, URA website [downloaded on 4 June 2015], available at http://www.ura.gov.sg/railcorridor/history.html.

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    Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), “History: Brief History of Railways in Singapore”, undated, URA website [downloaded on 1 January 2016], available at https://www.ura.gov.sg/railcorridor/history.html.

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    City Form Lab, “50 ways to the Singapore Rail Corridor”, City Form Lab website [downloaded on 3 June 2015], available at http://cityform.mit.edu/projects/50.

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    Heng, Janice, “Winning concept master plan chosen for Rail Corridor”, 9 November 2015, The Straits Times [downloaded on 9 November 2015], available at http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/winning-concept-master-plan-chosen-for-rail-corridor.

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    Heng, Janice, “Winning concept master plan chosen for Rail Corridor”, 9 November 2015, The Straits Times [downloaded on 9 November 2015], available at http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/winning-concept-master-plan-chosen-for-rail-corridor.

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Lim, T.W. (2017). Peripheral Land No More? Fetishisms of Space and Case Studies of the Green Rail Corridor and Clementi Forest. In: Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4747-3_5

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