{"id":32153,"date":"2023-08-11T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=32153"},"modified":"2023-08-15T13:32:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T05:32:23","slug":"singapores-civic-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2023\/08\/11\/singapores-civic-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore&#8217;s Civic District"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3gpmh\" data-offset-key=\"46dkg-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The Civic District of Singapore stands as a captivating tapestry woven with historical threads, architectural marvels, and cultural significance. In this BERITAMediacorp documentary on Singapore\u2019s Civic District, broadcast on 2<\/span><sup>nd <\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">August 2023, Dr Imran Tajudeen (NUS Malay Studies) and archaeologist Professor John Miksic (NUS Southeast Asian Studies), along with the owners of businesses and relatives of former residents of the area, provide intimate insights on its rich history, architecture, and culture.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3gpmh\" data-offset-key=\"hch8-0-0\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch the documentary (in Malay) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1axCjx0x8LY\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32154 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/IMG_6395-scaled-2-e1691726300711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/IMG_6395-scaled-2-e1691726300711.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/IMG_6395-scaled-2-e1691726300711-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/IMG_6395-scaled-2-e1691726300711-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/IMG_6395-scaled-2-e1691726300711-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/IMG_6395-scaled-2-e1691726300711-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/08\/IMG_6395-scaled-2-e1691726300711-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;text-align: center\">Photo: \u2018View of the Padang, Singapore Island Country Club and Swissotel from the roof of the National Gallery&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;text-align: center\">by Kelman Chiang from SRN\u2019s SG Photobank<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civic District of Singapore stands as a captivating tapestry woven with historical threads, architectural marvels, and cultural significance. In this BERITAMediacorp documentary on Singapore\u2019s Civic District, broadcast on 2nd August 2023, Dr Imran Tajudeen (NUS Malay Studies) and archaeologist Professor John Miksic (NUS Southeast Asian Studies), along with the owners of businesses and relatives &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2023\/08\/11\/singapores-civic-district\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Singapore&#8217;s Civic District<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":32154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4535,4529,4609,4536,4604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malay-studies","category-news","category-singapore-research-nexus","category-southeast-asian-studies","category-visible"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32181,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32153\/revisions\/32181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}