SMART CITY, SMALL STATE: SINGAPORE’S AMBITIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS IN DIGITAL TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIVITY.
Since the 1990s, Singapore has developed a steady reputation as a high technology and communications hub. Being 100 percent urbanized seems to have been an asset in the city-state’s top-down transformation from a diversified manufacturing and services economy to an increasingly digitally-oriented se...
| Publicado en: | Journal of International Affairs Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 240 - 256 |
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Journal of International Affairs
2022
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