Housing : Hong Kong, Singapore and London, England. Illustrative album.

A study by Thomas C. Manley. Summer 1973. 16-970-698-20. Special Studies in Urban Planning. [Title from typed title leaf]. Folio scrapbook, 360 x 310 mm, wooden boards with typed label affixed to front with variant title Housing : Hong Kong, Singapore and London, England. A study by Thomas C. Manley. Summer 1973. 16-970-698-20. Special Studies in Urban Planning; [57] leaves, rivet-bound, comprising typed title, [2 blank leaves], and [54] leaves with approximately [200] colour and b/w photographic illustrations of contemporary urban housing in Hong Kong, Singapore and London, apparently cut from professional periodicals and neatly mounted on the rectos and versos, all accompanied by the compiler’s detailed typed caption labels; very clean throughout, a few of the caption labels loose (but preserved); housed in the original custom-made commercial box for Discoverer Scrapbook, made in the U.S.A. by The Holson Company, 111 Danbury Road, Wilton, Conn. 06897.

A unique comparative urban planning study – undertaken as part of a university program and therefore unpublished – that contrasts radically different approaches to housing adopted in Hong Kong, Singapore and London in the early 1970s. Approximately one-half of the study is devoted to Singapore, one-sixth to Hong Kong and one-third to London. The compiler of the project, Thomas C. Manley, was possibly a Yale University undergraduate student (the scrapbook was manufactured by a local Connecticut company based not far from New Haven).