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Developmentalist smart cities? the cases of Singapore and Seoul

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Governments and companies across the globe are promoting smart cities, and their developments usually reflect both globally shared ideas and locally specific agendas and implementations. This paper examines the smart cities of Singapore and Seoul – two key global cities in Asia with legacies of state-led developmentalism. It discusses the two cities’ latest smart city endeavors, trajectories, and policy motivations. In particular, it explores the role of smart city policy in governments’ local and global agendas for development and argues that the two acclaimed cases can be interpreted as globally-oriented neo-developmentalist smart cities. In doing so, this paper also explains that the typically assumed developmentalist feature becomes much more complicated as it intermixes with the global cities’ international outlooks and aspirations as well as the changing demands from citizens in the post-developmental era.HighlightsI examine the two ‘actually-existing’ global smart cities in Asia.I explore the role of smart city policy in local and global agendas for development.Singapore and Seoul reflect globally-oriented neo-developmentalist smart cities.Singapore and Seoul are not hardware-driven developmentalist smart cities.

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  • Yu-Min Joo, 2023. "Developmentalist smart cities? the cases of Singapore and Seoul," International Journal of Urban Sciences, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(S1), pages 164-182, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjusxx:v:27:y:2023:i:s1:p:164-182
    DOI: 10.1080/12265934.2021.1925143
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    1. Demokaan Demirel, 2023. "The Impact of Managing Diversity on Building the Smart City A Comparison of Smart City Strategies: Cases From Europe, America, and Asia," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(3), pages 21582440231, July.

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