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Singapore Studies Resources: Urban Development of SG

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Neo Tiew: The Man Who Built Lim Chu Kang by Alvin Tan
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The Peng Lee Er Collection, Hsu Yun Tsiao Collection and Singapore Lam Ann Association Collection are with at the National Library Singapore. Please contact them for access.
Mansion Blocks, Flats and Tenements: The Advent of Apartment Living by Julian Davison
Planning to Build, Building to Plan by Yap Jo Lin
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The building plans collection is located at the National Archives Singapore. Please contact them for access.

Quick Reads from the series 'Singapore Chronicles'

Early Development of the Built Environment

Contesting Space : Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment in Colonial Singapore by Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
Publication Date: 2003
Colonial Architecture and Architects of Georgetown (Penang) and Singapore, between 1786 and 1942 by Lim, Jon Sun Hock.
Call Number: NA25 *1991 55 (4 vols)
The Merdeka Interviews: Architects, Engineers and Artists of Malaysia's Independence by Lai Chee Kien and Ang Chee Cheong
Call Number: NA 1525 :ai 2018

Forgotten Urban Neighbourhoods in Singapore: a series of 10 excerpts by Dr. Iman bin Tajudeen

Photographic Narratives of the Built Environment

Characters of Light : A Guide to the Buildings of Singapore by Doggett, Marjorie
Publication Date: 1957
The Singapore House, 1819-1942 by Lee Kip Lin
Publication Date: 1988
Through the Lens of Lee Kip Lin: Photographs of Singapore 1965-1995 by Lai Chee Kien (ed.)
Publication Date: 2015
Marjorie Doggett's Singapore: A Photographic Record by Stokes, Edward
Publication Date: 2019
In Granite and Chunam : the National Monuments of Singapore by Liu, Gretchen; photographs by Albert Lim K.S.
Our Modern Past: A Visual Survey of Singapore Architecture 1920s-1970s by Ho Weng Hin, Dinesh Naidu and Tan Kar Lin. Photographs by Jeremy San Tzer Ning
Publication Date: 2015

Public Housing

The Work of the Singapore Improvement Trust by Singapore Improvement Trust
Annual Reports 1927 to 1959
The First Decade in Public Housing, 1960-69 by Housing and Development Board
Publication Date: 1970
Housing a Nation : 25 years of Public Housing in Singapore by Aline K. Wong and Stephen H. K. Yeh (eds)
Publication Date: 1985
Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore by Chua Beng Huat
Publication Date: 1997
Families in Flats: A Study of Low Income Families in Public Housing by Hassan, Riaz
Publication Date: 1977

Search LINC by Subject Public housing -- Singapore; Housing -- Singapore

Urban Planning (1965 onwards)

Urban Planning in Singapore: The Transformation of a City by Dale, Ole Johan
Publication Date: 1999
City & the State: Singapore's Built Environment Revisited by Ooi Giok Ling and Kenson Kwok(eds.)
Publication Date: 1997
Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State by Haila, Anne
Publication Date: 2016
50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore by Heng Chye Kiang (ed.)
Publication Date: 2017
Constructing Singapore Public Space by Hee Limin
Publication Date: 2017

Search LINC by Subject City planning -- Singapore.

Other bibliographies

From the really relevant site Academia | SG:

Space and the Urban Environment

Social Class and Inequalities

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Earliest buildings in Singapore