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. 2003 May 30;61(1):1–74. doi: 10.1016/S0305-9006(03)00013-8

Table 7.

Planning for services-led urban development within the Asia-Pacific

Development models and representative programmes Principles and values Reference cases
Service industries and globalization Inter-city competition, concepts of competitive advantage, urban hierarchy; discounting of social costs (Daniels, 1993) Singapore (since mid-1980s); Shanghai, Osaka, Fukuoka
 Deregulation/privatization
 Foreign direct investment
 Urban mega-projects  (after Olds, 2001)


Service industries and ‘post-industrial’ trajectories Pursuit of ‘growth services’ and propulsive intermediate service industries within context of industrial decline/obsolescence; acceptance of dislocation and displacement effects (Hall, 1991) Nagoya, Hong Kong, Singapore
 Land use policy change
 Human capital investments
 Targeted industry support  programmes


Service industries and the ‘New Economy’ Assertive technocratic vision which privileges the future; idea of IT as principal instrument of urban transformation and modernization; ‘re-imaging’ of the city via policy-induced technological development (Bunnell, 2002) Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya, Singapore, Vancouver
 Support for R&D
 Promotion of urban  ‘technopoles’
 Spatial planning and land  use policy


Service industries and the ‘co-operative regional cluster’ model Acknowledgement of complementarity (as well as competition) among centres within extended metropolitan regions (EMR's), after McGee (Douglass, 2000) Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta, SIJORI, San Francisco-Bay Area Region
 Institutional co-ordination
 Joint planning and  marketing efforts
 Spatial rationalization  of new investment


Service industries and the ‘sustainable city-region’ model Principles of social and environmental policy; idea of ‘efficient and equitable’ city-region; acknowledgement of sustainability as planning paradigm or framework (Goldberg and Hutton, 2000) Sydney, Vancouver, Pearl River Delta
 Planning for suburban service  industry subcentres
 Services within ‘compact’ and  ‘complete’ communities
 Extensive designated ‘green  zones’


Service industries and the urban ‘cultural economy’ Idea of strategic convergence between culture and urban development (Scott, 1997); significance of creative industries and workforce (Florida, 2002) Los Angeles, Singapore, Vancouver
 Public support of the arts
 Policy support for inner city  clusters
 Heritage planning
 Promotion of the ‘24 h’ city