Treatise on Urban Mapping, Vol I and II (eBook, Edition 2)
₹ 900.00
Treatise on Urban Mapping is a two–volume account of India’s urban planning failures and the practical path forward, written from inside the system by a planner who spent over six decades solving exactly this problem. Volume I, Retrospect, spans 18 chapters and 601 pages, tracing why most Indian cities still lack valid Master Plans by treating the Base Map—the ground truth every plan depends on—as an afterthought rather than a continuously maintained asset. Volume II, Prospects, spans 5 chapters and 229 pages, and lays out an institutional blueprint for fixing this, including a proposed Survey and Mapping Division within each state’s Town and Country Planning department. The book draws on real project data, including the 42-city mapping programme under the Karnataka Municipal Reforms Project, and compares outdated satellite-based methods with modern LiDAR and Aerial Photography standards. It includes 102 maps accessible via QR code, along with a unique QR code providing editable templates in native formats such as “dwg” and “xls”, so planners, students and administrators can apply the methods directly to their own cities. Priced at Rs.900, it is a working reference for anyone responsible for how Indian cities grow.
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About the Author
- R. Rudraiah is a town planner, with B. E. (Civil),with more than 63 years of experience across India and abroad. He worked within Karnataka’s Department of Town and Country Planning for the better part of his career, and served on foreign assignment in Tanzania from 1975 to 1979 through the Government of India, followed by nearly 13 years in the Sultanate of Oman. On his return, he led the Bangalore Development Authority’s mapping of 1,450 square kilometres of Bengaluru and its surrounding areas from 1999 to 2003, introducing the WGS84 and UTM projection system to Indian urban mapping for the first time. From 2003 to 2017, he directed mapping efforts for the Karnataka Municipal Reforms Project, overseeing the creation of over 14,500 mapsin scientific manner, across 42 towns and cities. He later advised the Karnataka Housing Board on adoption of best practices in planning and development of housing scheme delivery. Treatise on Urban Mapping is the culmination of this career, written to pass on decades of field tested knowledge to the next generation of planners
