Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
3-2017
Abstract
A recent focus of research has been the making, mobility and mutations of urban policy. The global circulation of urban models – or exemplars of best practices and values that are deemed to be desirable and achievable – has gained significant traction. Such models are those that are dislocated from their place of origin, and transplanted to an adopted site. This chapter draws on the case of Singapore: one of the most emblematic examples of an importable/exportable urban model – a prototype for growth-oriented urban development with its normative and technical plans for growth and management – to foreground problems and challenges associated with such importation/exportation. We propose a future research agenda that focuses on the sites of origination and application of urban models, and the ways in which social, political, cultural, economic and environmental contexts shape policy transfer – not to mention urban theory – around the world
Keywords
cities, urbanization, Singapore model, Singapore, urban plans
Discipline
Asian Studies | Urban Studies | Urban Studies and Planning
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
A research agenda for cities
Editor
John R. Short
First Page
206
Last Page
217
ISBN
9781785363412
Identifier
10.4337/9781785363429.00026
Publisher
Edward Elgar
City or Country
Cheltenham
Citation
WOODS, Orlando, & Kong, Lily. (2017). Mobile cities, modelling policies: Importing/exporting the Singapore ‘model’ of development. In A research agenda for cities (pp. 206-217). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2467
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Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363429.00026