Planning as State-Effect: Calculation, Historicity and Imagination at Marina Bay, Singapore

Kah-Wee Lee

Planning Theory & Practice, 2018, vol. 19, issue 4, 477-495

Abstract: This paper explores how planning practices contribute to the reification of the ‘state’ through the case of Singapore’s new urban waterfront, Marina Bay. Instead of assuming Singapore’s state-led planning model as inherently ‘top-down’ and ‘long-term’, it disaggregates the planning process into three specific modes of abstraction – calculation, historicity and imagination – and analyzes the role of each in reifying the ‘state’ as the singular author of history and development. The case contributes to the literature by illuminating how ‘states’ can appear to have different forms, spatialities, agencies and ultimately consequences, without compartmentalizing planning models based primarily on ideological or geopolitical divisions.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2018.1501510

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