Resources
A curated archive of media narratives, scholarly resources, and relevant projects on coastal urbanities and socio-environmental change that we’ve been amassing since 2016.
The media articles and essays archived do not necessarily represent scholarly opinions of BlueUrban as a consortium, nor any of its researchers.
These resources are but a work-in-progress, and aim to reflect the discursive diversity of everyday vernacular, media, policy, and scientific opinion as situated in these immensely complex socio-ecological and political issues, ranging from land reclamation and subsidence, to geo-engineering and amphibious architecture.
General
From 'Public Books':
- “Let us now see climate change” (Koslov, 2012)
- “Failed Infrastructure is Failed Politics” (Feb 2017)
- Climate Fiction – 500 Years
Visual Essays, blogs
- “The Vernacular of Disaster” (Barilla, 2012, Places Journal)
- “The City and the Sea” (Vanderbilt, 2013, PJ)
- “Manila’s Danger Areas” (Kwak, 2015, PJ)
- “Your Sea Wall Won´t Save You” (Yarina, 2018, PJ)
- “Everything dey Scatta” (Cerf, 2020, Otherwise Magazine)
- “As Sea Levels Rise, So Do Ghost Forests” (Velasquez-Manoff, 2019, NYT)
- “Making the Invisible Seen: The Infrastructure of Modern Groundwater Governmentality in Taiwan” (Ho, 2021, Platypus)
Projects, podcasts:
- Sinking Cities project
- Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures
- SEACoast (Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions)
- Sand Stories
- Cities of Sand (LSE, podcast series)
- Speculative Life
- Radical Ocean Futures
- The Southern Collective – Indian Ocean
- Singapore-based artist Charles Lim Yi Yong
- MarineCoastalCultures
- Coastal and Marine Research Group (RGS)
- Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR)
- Undisciplined Environments (a POLLEN initiative)
- Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
- Environmental Humanities South, University of Capetown
Jakarta
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Wired, UK |
Peter Guest, The Impossible Fight to Save Jakarta, the Sinking Megacity (Oct 2019) |
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BBC, Indonesia |
Mayuri Mei Lin & Rafki Hidayat, Jakarta, the fastest sinking city in the world (Aug 2018) |
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VOANews |
Krithika Varagur, As Jakarta sinks, hopes are pinned on a bird-shaped sea wall (Jan 2017) |
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The Guardian |
Guardian Readers and Francesca Perry, The city is designed for cars, not people: resident’s voices on Jakarta (Nov, 2016) |
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The Guardian |
Philip Sherwell, $40 Billion to save Jakarta: The story of the Great Garuda (Nov 2016) |
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Jakarta Post |
Devina Heriyanto, The Problem with Jakarta’s Land Reclamation (Apr, 2016) |
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Both Ends |
Is coastal defense in Jakarta promoting Dutch business interests or protecting the city? (Nov, 2016) |
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Bangkok Post |
Ismiri Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Indonesian planners tackle rampant coastal erosion (Apr, 2018) |
Singapore
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The Straits Times |
Ang Qing, Exhibition series to raise awareness of rising sea levels (Nov, 2020) |
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TodayOnline |
Kimberley Lim and Lauren Ong, A melting ice sheet and how rising sea levels will affect Singapore (Jul, 2019) |
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The Straits Times |
Audrey Tan and David Fogarty, Singapore will use nature-based solutions to deal with sea level rise: Masagos (Oct, 2019) |
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New York Times |
Samanth Subramanian, How Singapore is Creating More Land for Itself (April, 2017) |
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Failed Architecture |
William Jamieson, In Conquering the Sea, Singapore Erases its History (Mar 2018) |
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The Nature of Cities (TNOC) |
Nhung Nguyen, Karenne Tun, and Lena Chan, If You Build It, They Will Come: Modifying Coastal Structures for Habitat Enhancement (Oct, 2016) |
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Mothership |
Belmont Lay, …Diverted Traffic in Flood (Jan, 2018) |
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The Straits Times |
Straits Times interactive (May, 2017) |
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NUS Science |
Peter Todd, Ecologically Engineering Singapore’s Seawalls (Oct 2016) |
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The Straits Times |
Audrey Tan, National Day Rally (Aug 2019) |
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Dutch Water Sector |
Dutch polders are coming to Singapore (Aug 2019) |
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Saigoneer |
Under the Sea: Singapore artist Depicts Life After Ocean Sea Level Rises |
Philippines
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Rappler |
George Moyo , The Floating World of Artex (July, 2014)
Contains photographs of Artex, provides short history and images |
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Philpiine News Agency |
Azer Parrocha, Duterte still not inclined to allow Manila Bay reclamation (Apr 2020) |
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Seatrade Maritime News |
Michele Labrut, Boskalis awarded $360m land reclamation project in Manila Bay (Dec, 2019) |
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American Geophysical Union |
E.C. Eco, Manila Bay reclamation and its impacts on the people and environment (Fall meeting, 2018) |
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Smart Cities Dive |
Don Johnson Lontoc, The Unstainable Truth about Land Reclamation: Manila Bay Reclamation |
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Mongabay |
Leilani Chavez and Susan Claire Agbayani, As lockdown ends, activists brace to resume fight over Manila Bay reclamation (May, 2020) |
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Photo credits: Lazarus Island in Singapore, J. D. Salleh ©