UWC2101D: Selves and Cities

Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3

Unit One: Ideals of the Self / Close Reading Essay

• Close Reading of Plato's Republic By Tang Weng Hong (2001)
• In Search for the Truth about Truth By Liang Shu-Ping (2001)

Unit Two: Metropolitan Life / An Argument Using Two Sources

• Avoiding The Pitfalls of Quantification By Yeo Hwee Pey (2001)
• Which Wild Beast? Simmel and Corbusier on the Modern City By Tang Weng Hong (2001)
  • Reflecting on "Which Wild Beast?"
• The Metropolitan Dilemma of Perspective By Tan Quiyi (2001)

Unit Three: Reading the City / An Argument Using Multiple Sources

• Yesterday Once More by Yeo Hwee Pey (2001)
• What is Authenticity? Singapore as Potemkin Metropolis by Tang Weng Hong (2001)
  • Reflecting on "What is Authenticity"
• Planning & the Meaning of Orchard Road by Benjamin Ching (2001)
  • First Draft
  • Close reading of Tan Kok Meng's "Orchard Road: The Hyper-'Longkang' of Consumption"
  • Reflecting on "Planning & the Meaning of Orchard Road"