Urban Governance and Smart City Planning by Zaheer Allam

Author:Zaheer Allam
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781839821066
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

The Singapore's Liveability Framework

One of the commendable features of Singapore is that development agendas are steered by the government from their conception stage till completion. This was ensured by Lee Kuan Yew during his reign as Prime Minister, since independence from being a British colony, and it has been consistent since then (Tan, Chuah, & Luu, 2018). Since 2008, development, research and policy agendas were compounded under one body named Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), under the aegis of the Ministry of National Development that encapsulates the input of professionals, public organisations, civic grounds and inhabitants. This body refined the existing frameworks in Singapore and devised a new model that captures the concept of liveability and sustainability, which have become the corner stone of Singapore's success: the Singapore's Liveability Framework. This reflected on the cultural diversity presented in different parts of the country in a context with geographical limitation (Civil Service College & Centre for Liveable Cities, 2014), where only an inhabitable space of approximately 710 km2 is present, which was increased through sea reclamation from the original size of 581 km2. The habitable space is currently occupied by over 5.7 million people and not endowed with any natural resource (CIA, 2018). This lack of natural resources moulded a dynamic model of productivity and efficiency led by the service industry (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore, 2018).

Chye (2014) shares that Singapore's Liveability Framework is centred on three main outcomes, namely, competitive economy, sustainable environment and high quality of life. This is represented in Fig. 3.1. The three outcomes form the basis for national policies formulated, with a specific focus on their completion. The success of these outcomes is tied in two systems of planning: (1) integrated master planning and development and (2) dynamic urban governance.

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