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The Johor-Singapore Causeway was inaugurated on 28 June 1924. With this, Singapore became physically connected to the Malay Peninsula via a 1,056-metre-long raised track across the Johor Strait. Since then, [...]

This article pays tribute to the life and work of Professor Gavin W. Jones, a highly respected figure in the field of demography and population studies. Professor Jones focused his research on various aspects of Asian population studies, such as fertility, marriage, divorce, urbanization, and development. He played a crucial role in establishing the journal Asian Population Studies, which has become a prominent publication in the field. Professor Jones continued to actively contribute to scholarship and consulting until his passing in 2022. His work was characterized by a deep understanding of cultural factors, kinship systems, and legislative changes, and he made significant policy contributions. Professor Jones was also remembered as a supportive mentor and leader, known for his warm and kind nature. [Extracted from the article]

b Astrid R.N. Haas B Promoting Essential Green Infrastructure by Acknowledging Local Needs in Praxis b Ian Mell and Tenley Conway B Climate Resilient Infrastructure - Connecting and Dividing the Cities of the Future b Cathy Oke Infrastructure That Connects/Infrastructure That Divides We live in an age of infrastructure, we are told repeatedly (Dodson, [3]). B Contents b B Introduction: Infrastructure That Connects/Infrastructure That Divides b Matti Siemiatycki and Kevin Ward B I "Rail Linor Itu Pare" i : Railways as Infrastructural Borders in Guwahati, Northeast India b Prerona Das, Tim Bunnell and James Sidaway B Infrastructures of Water and Ideas: The Struggle Against Environmental Racism in Black Urban Regimes b Alesia Montgomery B Infrastructures of Race b Sawyer Phinney B Whose Infrastructure is it Anyway? Large-scale, networked, colonial-derived infrastructure such as Indian railways (that in turn connect with planetary-spanning transport infrastructures) thus assume another local function and meaning as a dividing infrastructure. Trees and naturalized habitats are also being categorized as green infrastructure, since they serve the same function as the built grey infrastructure that stores water or retains hillsides - only in many instances the green infrastructure is more successful. [Extracted from the article]

Recent work in several fields of psychology has advanced understanding of how humans imaginatively construct, simulate and (pre‐)feel the future. These advances have not yet been substantively engaged in social and cultural geography. In this paper, we identify, review and begin to draw together scholarship in human geography and several subfields of psychology on the ways in which people imagine and navigate towards the future. The most influential existing work on the future in geography has concerned powerful institutional and discursive depictions of threatening times‐to‐come. In contrast, psychological and neuroscientific work on cognitive processes involved in prospection extends possibilities for a human geographical approach to the future considering how people relate to discursive imaginaries and spatial environments. Reinvigoration of the human geography‐psychology nexus can further critical understanding of the spatialities through which futures are imaginatively formed and felt by individuals, and are thereby brought into the realm of political and social possibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

C.P. Pow became a significant part of my own academic journey from soon after I joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1999. Our academic inspirations, interests and identities overlapped, and we had opportunities to co-teach and co-write. I use these overlaps and collaborations as a way into reflecting on Pow's work, mainly during the period up to when he received tenure at NUS in 2011. I focus on two substantive themes. The first has to do with how and why Pow approached the landscape of Singapore beyond the visual or the 'seen'. The second theme concerns the origins, development and consolidation of Pow's contributions to examining urban Asia in ways that unsettle Anglo-American-derived generalizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]