Research

Project Overview

Urban change in the next two decades in Singapore will be socio-spatial and multi-sourced as urban redevelopment will grow in scope and extent as the city’s built environment ages. Urban redevelopment is formidable and can exact emotional and social costs on individuals and groups as places, routines, and belongings become dislocated and disrupted.

The project sets out to gain a better grasp of how urban residents perceive, conceive, and experience change in their neighborhoods, and in this context how they form their belongings in the city under conditions of change arising from redevelopment of their everyday urban environment.

The data will be collected using digital cognitive mapping interviewing, a method valuable for accessing spatial consciousness, with urban residents from different demographic groups in selected neighborhoods.