Did Raffles have any plans of chinatown??

Raffles drew up a plan for chinatown, his blueprint was developed from years of first-hand experience in Penang.His instructions to the Singapore Town Planning Committee in 1822 thus stated that houses should have a uniform type of front each having a porch of a certain depth, open to all sides as a continuous and open passage on each side of the street. This probably led to the five-foot way which the shophouses in Chinatown are famous for. Some researchers have reflected that the shophouse was a fusion of the narrow-fronted houses that are a familiar sight in Amsterdam with the ones of Southern China, especially in Guangzhou and Fujian.