Atlanta, For Immediate Release: While Singapore may not cover much space, the city/state is very big indeed when it comes to development. Singapore, in fact, has achieved the “top small nation development program” in recent history, noted futurist McKinley Conway asserts in his new book, Global Super Projects: Mega Ventures That Are Shaping Our Future.

Singapore ’s landmark program, however, is only one of a host of mega-endeavors in which Conway has selected the most significant projects in recent history. In addition, the author of several dozen other books has chosen the top projects in 19 other important categories, ranging from environmental and conservation undertakings, to new airports, highways and other infrastructure elements. (To access all of Conway’s selections, as well as the Conway Global Super Projects Registry, look for the online version of the entire book that will be available by Jan. 16, 2006, at www.sitenet.com/books/superprojects. To go directly to the Conway Global Super Projects Registry, go to www.sitenet.com/books/superprojects/registry.)

Conway, a pioneer in the economic development field, made his selections from what he calls “Super Projects, the billion-dollar babies that are changing the face of world development.” A Super Project, he explains, “represents a cost of US$1 billion or more and/or a represents a technological breakthrough of worldwide significance.” Conway’s Atlanta-based research firm, Conway Data Inc., maintains a global Super Project database that now includes some 2,000 ventures.

Just how did Conway, who has studied major global projects for decades and brought together leading Super Project experts in a series of historic worldwide conferences, choose the crème de la crème? The winners, he explains, “were those deemed to be most significant in improving the quality of life for large numbers of the world’s citizens.”

Here, for example, is how the author explained his choice for the world’s top small nation development program:

“ Singapore’s creative strategy earns our recognition as the world’s top small nation program. Singapore is a world model. It is a beautiful city, clean and safe, with the aura of a botanical garden. It is, however, land poor. To ease that problem, imaginative leaders have contrived to expand economic development projects into adjacent areas of Indonesia and Malaysia. A second causeway opens new opportunities in Johore. Ferry service shuttles executives to supervise new industrial parks and other mixed-use projects across the strait on Indonesia’s Batam Island.”