No doubt, he was a competent leader, an effective politician, but I think the recognition for nation building should go to the thousands of people who worked together to make it happen, and not just one man. There are cities of concrete jungles all over the world, many are bigger and more magnificent than Singapore, they do not attribute their development to just one man. If this one man created Singapore, then I'd say every other Singaporean is useless. Are they? I leave that to your judgement.
Cheers!
Just go outside and see the concrete jungle he has planned and created. Like God created the Forrests of the world.
LKY is the real deal.