Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts

Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of being Global

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 27-54

  Huat, Chua Beng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

"Success" process of "self scripting" of Singapore, as a nation; "Survival," and governance space for activist state regulating, Singaporean everyday life; Aspiration, Singapore experience state entrepreneurial activities, copied by other governments; From garden city to city in a garden physical transformation of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew claiming credit for this idea; Loss of desired Malaysian market geographic reorientation, as Singapore's "market"; Modeling after Singapore, disaggregated analytically unrelated discrete practices; Modeling, Singapore as model planning innovations, and knowledge experts; Singapore as model, economic success ideological, political, economic practices; Singapore's economic success dismissed, thinking of its authoritarian political regime; Singapore, alert and receptive to opportunities, from global economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886966017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346800.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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