Treatise on Urban Mapping Vol-1
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Treaties on Urban Mapping.
The book: TREATIES ON URBAN MAPPING, is in two volumes: Volume I – Retrospect, a survey or review of a past course of events and Volume II – Prospects, the possibility or likelihood of some good event occurring. Volume I has 18 chapters spread over 601 pages of typescript and 29 pages of Table of Contents (ToC) and annexures. In Volume I, what has happened in town planning in general and preparation of maps for urban areas in the country in particular, from the year 1963 to the year 2018 has been explained lucidly with facts and figures. The errors, omissions and commissions, committed both by town planners and the governments at centre and states have been brought out.
Volume II has 5 chapters spread over 284 pages of typescript and 18 pages of ToC and annexures. In these chapters, solutions to the problems faced by the town planners and the governments at centre and states are provided. Chapters in Volume II are guidelines in which the best practices, that are internationally followed are provided for adoption by town planners,
There are 102 maps of different types and varying in size from A3 to A0 and on UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) system, which has a neat line of 1,000 x 500 mm, for 5 standard scales: 1:500, 1:1,000, 1:2,000, 1:10,000 and 1:20,000, are given as QR codes at the end of respective chapters. There are tables and drawings in annexures, about 25 in number, which serve as ready reckoners, to students in town planning courses and practicing town planers alike. There is a unique QR code at page xxvi, which provides the drawings and charts in their native format such as ‘dwg’, ‘xls’. Many of the drawings in annexures, which can be downloaded from the QR at page xxvi, can be used as templates in other projects.
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About the Author
Shri. L. R. Rudraiah is a Town Planner by profession with more than six decades of experience. He graduated in Civil Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru in 1963 and joined the Department of Town and Country Planning (DTCP), Karnataka as a Junior Town Planner.
He graduated with a Master’s degree in City Planning (MCP) from the prestigious IIT, Kharagpur in 1967. He went on an assignment to Government of Tanzania in February, 1975, through the Government of India, and worked as a Town Planner for 4 years for the Department of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, in Das es Salaam, the then capital.
On his return in 1979, he rejoined to work in the parent department. He was deputed in 1982, as Deputy Director, at the Karnataka Housing Board. He took voluntary retirement in October, 1984 and worked as a Town Planner in the Town Planning and Survey Department, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman, for 13 long years where he gained vast experience in survey and mapping; planning, development and governance of urban areas.
He returned to India in 1997 and worked for the Bangalore Development Authority for 4 years from July, 1999 to August, 2003, in mapping of 1,450 sq km of Bengaluru from Aerial Photos. He was taken as an Advisor in the DTCP, Karnataka in September, 2003, in the project for mapping of 42 urban areas, under the financial assistance from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. He worked up to September, 2017, where a total 14,257 maps at different scales from different methods of survey were prepared. Of this, world class topographical maps were prepared for 14 urban areas from Aerial Photographs. In February 2019, he moved to the Karnataka Housing Board, to assist in adopting the best practices in planning and development of housing schemes. His work was cut short only due to the COVID pandemic in March, 2020, for the short stint of serving for 13 months. He formally retired from active work in April, 2020, after nearly six decades of professional work.
He was born in an agrarian family to Shri. Rudregowda and Smt. Kempamma in Lakkappanahalli, Ramanagara Taluk, Bengaluru South District, Karnataka, in December, 1938. He is married to Smt. Vijayalakshmi for 58 years and has two daughters and 3 grandchildren. He has lived by the philosophy of “Work is Worship”!
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| Weight | 0.250 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20 × 20 × 1 cm |
