MOVING PEOPLE, GOODS, AND INFORMATION IN SINGAPORE: INTELLIGENT CORRIDORS. IN: MOVING PEOPLE, GOODS, AND INFORMATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE CUTTING-EDGE INFRASTRUCTURES OF NETWORKED CITIES

This chapter is one of three on moving people, goods, and information in Singapore, all of which appear in a book on moving people, goods, and information in the 21st century. In this chapter, the author focuses on intelligent corridors; the other chapters cover roads and rails, and the sea. The author of this chapter notes that the strategic planning concept of the intelligent corridor is derived from the information and communication technology (ICT)-driven planned development experience of Singapore. The Singapore case is a rich source for learning in detail how ICT development strategies and programs operate. The author focuses on the interdependence of infrastructure, information, and knowledge. The organizing theme of the chapter is the corridor; this spatial-organizational construct is used as a metaphor for analyzing and interpreting the evolution of Singapore's ICT-based development planning. The author proposes and outlines a Singapore Model to discern a pattern and a likely path for Singapore's future planned development. The model includes the planning systems approach, the knowledge base, functions of the industrial sector, deductive/inductive processes and standards, information flows and networks, place and spatial organization, and experimental and learning processes. The author emphasizes that intelligent corridors are more than linear areas that have been wired for ICT; they also have multidimensional proximities that provide the specified development area with an identity and an integrated higher quality of work and living than occurs outside the designate space of the intelligent corridor. The corridor concept may also be used at various scales, i.e., from local to regional to global.

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• Authors:
  • Corey, K E
• Publication Date: 2004

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• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 293-324
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  • Publication of: Routledge
  • Publisher: Routledge

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Communications; Communities; Economic and social factors; Information technology; Infrastructure; Quality of life; Socioeconomic areas; Workplaces
• Uncontrolled Terms: Intelligent corridors
• Geographic Terms: Singapore
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

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• ISBN: 0415281210
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• Created Date: Jan 24 2005 12:00AM