Erasure
From sleepy fishing village to gleaming metropolis in a brief span of 50 years: this is the compressed development history commonly associated with Singapore. As a city hyper-focused on the future, as demonstrated by the upcoming Punggol Digital District, it engages in continual urban revitalisation, its metanarrative promising some future apotheosis of that practice.
Set against this backdrop, several landmarks appear to have fallen outside the futurist frame. Completed in the early 1970s, Golden Mile Complex and People’s Park Complex
