Smart Cities in Asia

Edited by Yu-Min Joo, Associate Professor, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, South Korea and Teck-Boon Tan, Research Fellow and Coordinator, Science and Technology Studies Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

• Contents:1 Smart cities in Asia: an introduction 1Yu-Min Joo and Teck-Boon TanSMART CITIES OF THE FOUR ASIAN TIGERS AND JAPAN2 The Smart Nation: unpacking Singapore’s latest mega-digitalisation push 19Yu-Min Joo, Teck-Boon Tan and Ming-Yee Foo3 Smart-city vision and strategy in Hong Kong 38Xin Li, Kyung-Min Nam and Chee Keong Khoo4 Smart Taipei City: understanding policy motivations, approaches and implementation 61Shang-su Wu5 The evolution of smart city in South Korea: the smart city winter and the city-as-a-platform 78Jong-Sung Hwang6 Facilitating innovation for smart cities: the role of public policies in the case of Japan 93Masaru YarimeSMART CITY INITIATIVES OF TWO ASIAN GIANTS7 The smart city policy of India and its governance implications 108Souvanic Roy and Tathagata Chatterji8 Smart cities in China: development background, policy measures and implementations 127Xinhui Yang and Lin YeSECOND-TIER CITIES AND SMART CITY DEVELOPMENT9 Bureaucratic readiness for smart city initiatives: a mini study in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia 148Arif Budy Pratama and Satria Aji Imawan10 The smart city as a complex adaptive system: the ebbs and flows of humans and materials 162Ora-orn Poocharoen, Poon Thiengburanathum and Kian Cheng Lee11 ‘Green’ and ‘smart’ in South Korea: conceptions from the state to the citizen 180Michael Manning, Jill L. Tao and Jae-in NohIndex 199

‘This volume is a handy resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to identify relevant smart city policies, their evolution trajectories, and the government actors or agencies involved in their development in a particular country, just as the editors intended. The book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of Asian urbanism as well as those in public policy seeking to learn from the process of smart city policy developments outside the West.’