ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a policy design approach to understanding urban governance in a smart city. Focusing on Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative, it identifies the various design components and dynamics of the initiative that have influenced Singapore’s development as a smart city. The chapter argues that the Smart Nation initiative constitutes an act of “policy layering”, where new policy elements that are related to the smart city are layered upon Singapore’s existing developmental approach to governance and policymaking. It discusses Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative as policy design, identifying the various design components of the initiative as well as the design dynamics that have influenced its development. The chapter also argues that the Smart Nation initiative constitutes an act of “policy layering”, where new policy elements that are related to the smart city are layered upon Singapore’s existing developmental approach to governance and policymaking.
