ABSTRACT
Introduction Country atlases, by and large, do not usually bear unusual descriptors and titles. De Koninck’s two-part atlas of Singapore is an exception. The rst volume was titled An Atlas of the Revolution of Territory (De Koninck 1992), while the second is called An Atlas of Perpetual Territorial Transformation (De Koninck et al. 2008). Singapore, according to De Koninck, is an environment in constant evolution, with the pace and direction of change controlled tightly by the state. ‘The permanent overhaul of the Singaporean environment, whether one calls it development, improvement or upgrading, still seems to be a way of life, or rather a way of managing a country – since some may call it governance’ (De Koninck et al. 2008: 2).
