The Local Government Development Ministry has come under attack for wanting to learn from the contractors of Singapore’s Housing & Development Board. Are the criticisms justified? Are there things we can learn from Singapore? On this episode of Consider This, Melisa Idris speaks to Koh Cha-Ly, Founder and CEO of Urbanmetry, a data company which uses proprietary algorithms to analyse big data from cities. She is trained in city planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).