ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies several infrastructural sectors that Singapore's planners have carefully nurtured and developed over the years. It analyses: Singapore as a mobile city; the importance placed on infrastructures and the role of developmental states; and conceptualising global cities as spaces of flows. The island-nation of Singapore had acquired the distinction of a primary world city by 1986. Loughborough University's Globalization and World Cities Research Network also rated Singapore favourably as a leading Alpha World City. The high-level Economic Strategies Committee reiterated in 2010 a need to invest ahead in the fundamentals that will drive Singapore's success the infrastructure and connectivity of a global city. Keeping in mind the recurrent themes of the infrastructure' approach and a global city as a space of flows and the need to filter out good from bad circulations and mobilities highlighted previously, a close reading of Singapore's global city project vindicates the role of the developmental state.
