Research & Article

Urban heritage management has become an important issue for historic conservation and sociological study of the project. Singapore is one of the countries that emphasizes on developing historical and ethnic-bounded precincts to reflect the diversity of culture in the country. The conservation projects are conducted in various areas where the descendants of “Chinese, Indian, Malay and Others” immigrants have settled. However, such “cultural heritage” project leads to some crucial questions as to whether the process of conservation really brings authentic features of culture to the public awareness or has such process only a selective storytelling which emphasizes certain aspects of history and culture, and deliberately forget others.