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Brandon Chye
'Engaging with Archival Research'
NUS Mnemozine, April 2018
How should historians and other academic researchers engage with historical sources from archives? I discuss several perspectives surrounding this perennial historiographical debate.
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'Exporting Planning and Expertise'
Oxford Urbanists, June 2018
Singapore is a resource-poor city-state with one of the highest population densities in the world. Yet it has turned its challenges into strengths and increasingly branded itself as a global hub of expertise and 'best practice' for urban development. How might we understand the processes driving Singapore's burgeoning influence on international city development? What are some of the challenges that come with this influence?
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'Transit-Oriented Development in Emerging Cities
Oxford Urbanists, March 2019
As urbanization continues to accelerate in many developing countries, the development of efficient, cost-effective public transportation systems will be critical to the sustainable growth of emerging cities. This article highlights some of the key principles and lessons learned from Singapore’s transit-oriented development strategy and assesses how these principles may be considered and applied in emerging cities across the developing world.
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'Old Wine in New Bottles?' Innovation Systems and Knowledge-Based Urban Development in Singapore and China
Working Paper/Case
Proliferating state-supported innovation hubs across East Asia have great ambitions in their desire to become creative, economically prosperous melting pots enabling cities to develop front-runner capabilities in rapidly developing frontier areas of research and
development (R&D), particularly in strategic new industries such as bio-technology and the life sciences.
However, it is important to critically consider how far such projects have substantively diverged from traditions of state-coordinated industrial policy. Can such urban initiatives in
East Asia easily flourish as poly-centric innovation catalysts of the post-industrial economy?
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