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Introduction: Re‐mapping the ‘Growth Triangle’: Singapore’s cross‐border hinterland

Introduction: Re‐mapping the ‘Growth Triangle’: Singapore’s cross‐border hinterland *Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570. Email: geotgb@nus.edu.sg (T. Bunnell); geocerg@nus.edu.sg (C. Grundy-Warr) †Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK. Email: j.d.sidaway@lboro.ac.uk The four papers that follow were all presented in a special session at the Centennial Conference of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore that was held from 1 to 3 August 2005. The occasion coincided with the end of a three-year research project1 about the histories and dynamics of the Growth Triangle (which involved the three of us, plus Matthew Sparke from the University of Washington, Seattle and Hamzah Muzaini, now based at the University of Durham, UK). As set out in Sparke et al. (2004) and Bunnell et al. (2006), this sought to build upon existing research in Human Geography and cognate disciplines on cross-border regionalism and the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle in particular (Grundy-Warr et al., 1999). The Growth Triangle had been established in the early 1990s as a formal tripartite agreement between the authorities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Since then, most official narratives have stressed the collective advantages of the Growth Triangle, with cheaper land and labour in Johor (Malaysia) and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia Pacific Viewpoint Wiley

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Copyright © 2006 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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1360-7456
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1467-8373
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10.1111/j.1467-8373.2006.00317.x
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*Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570. Email: geotgb@nus.edu.sg (T. Bunnell); geocerg@nus.edu.sg (C. Grundy-Warr) †Department of Geography, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK. Email: j.d.sidaway@lboro.ac.uk The four papers that follow were all presented in a special session at the Centennial Conference of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore that was held from 1 to 3 August 2005. The occasion coincided with the end of a three-year research project1 about the histories and dynamics of the Growth Triangle (which involved the three of us, plus Matthew Sparke from the University of Washington, Seattle and Hamzah Muzaini, now based at the University of Durham, UK). As set out in Sparke et al. (2004) and Bunnell et al. (2006), this sought to build upon existing research in Human Geography and cognate disciplines on cross-border regionalism and the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle in particular (Grundy-Warr et al., 1999). The Growth Triangle had been established in the early 1990s as a formal tripartite agreement between the authorities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Since then, most official narratives have stressed the collective advantages of the Growth Triangle, with cheaper land and labour in Johor (Malaysia) and

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Published: Aug 1, 2006

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