Sequent Occupance and Toponymy in Singapore: The Diachronic and Synchronic Development of Urban Place Names

This paper is aimed at investigating the applicability of the notion of Sequent Occupance to the Singapore context. Sequent Occupance as a phenomenon in Human Geography was first theorized by Derwent Whittlesey in 1929 in order to describe the current cultural landscape of a region as a combination...

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Main Authors: Francesco Cavallaro, Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, Zhi Xuan Tan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-09-01
Series:Urban Science
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/3/3/98