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I end the chapter with the following quotation from Pico Iyer, novelist and travel writer:

Singapore is a city of the future now more than ever. In the last 15 years, it has become a fashion‐forward, cool, hip city that has surged into the future. It accelerated past other cities in the world and they look to Singapore as offering a model for where they want to go. The design and architecture are beyond anything I have seen. Every new building is so sleek, every old one is so beautifully preserved. In that way, Crazy Rich Asians is a real expression for how Singapore has arrived. I would say Singapore is ahead of New York by 20 years in terms of fashion, coolness and forward thinking, and it has a more coherent vision – thanks to your initial leaders – than Shanghai and Tokyo can ever have. That is a great benefit in an age where cities are making themselves up as they go along.

To this, let me simply add that while future cities, including Singapore, may be ‘crazy rich’, their citizens should not find themselves segregated into social groups based on class.