Kent E. Calder

Singapore (eBook, ePUB)

Smart City, Smart State

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How Singapore's solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies. Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique city¿state of some 5.5 million residents also serve as a model for other advanced economies as well as for the emerging world? Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder provides clear answers to this intriguing question in his new, groundbreaking book that looks at how Singapore's government has harnessed information technology, data, and a focus on innovative, adaptive governance to become a model smart city, smart state. Calder describes Singapore as a laboratory for solutions to problems experienced by urban societies around the world. In particular, he shows how Singapore has dealt successfully with education, energy, environmental, housing, and transportation challenges; many of its solutions can be adapted in a wide range of other societies. Calder also explains how Singapore offers lessons for how countries can adapt their economies to the contemporary demands of global commerce. Singapore consistently ranks at the top in world surveys measuring competitiveness, ease of doing business, protection of intellectual property, and absence of corruption. The book offers concrete insights and a lucid appreciation of how Singapore's answers to near-universal problems can have a much broader relevance, even in very different societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780815729488
• Artikelnr.: 49419384

Autorenporträt

Kent E. Calder is director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS/Johns Hopkins University. He is a former special adviser to the U.S. ambassador to Japan, Japan Chair at CSIS, and has been professor at Princeton University for twenty years. His books include Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism, Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations, and The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics.