Abstract
My paper advances recent debates on translocality in urban studies by combining them with both research on urban imaginaries and a postcolonial account of the anthropocene. Taking Singapore as a case study, what interests me is how the city state’s development is influenced – rather unlikely perhaps at first sight – by relations to Bremen, a port city in the North of Germany. By way of a mixed-method analysis, my project explores how Bremen-based firms contribute, both materially and symbolically, to the making of “Sustainable Singapore.” How do their decision-makers network translocally, how do they negotiate the relationships of the local to the global, and how do their entrepreneurial efforts materialize in the built landscape of Singapore? By – exemplarily – mapping Bremen in Singapore, it is explored how landscapes of late modernism are literally transformed into landscapes of the Anthropocene.
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