Town Planning towards City Development A Report to the Durbar of Indore

Patrick Geddes is one of the most important figures in planning history, variously presented as an inspiration to regional planning, environmental planning and sustainability, grass-roots planning, citizen democracy, historic preservation, neighbourhood upgrading, university–community partnership, lifelong learning, and co-operative housing. Though well-known and often praised by planning historians, his scholarship extended across a much broader range of disciplines, with extensive publication on biology and on civics, and significant contributions to sociology, economics, geography, education, and the arts and humanities. With the exception of his plan of Dunfermline, published in 1904, his plans are very hard to find. Most of his plans were prepared in India between 1915 and 1923, but beyond brief extracts from four of them included by Jaqueline Tyrwhitt in the book Patrick Geddes in India, they are very difficult to obtain. Some are lost altogether and the remainder are available in a handful of libraries, often held in Archives. Of all the plans prepared after Dunfermline, themost extensiveis for the city of Indore, originally published in two volumes that combine a comprehensive scheme for the urban development of the city with a detailed plan for the proposed University of Central India.

Introduction Volume I Part I Section1.Indore Prelimiary City Survey, and Interpretation I. Indore City, from Its Early Beginnings II. Preliminary Survey (Continued) III. Recent Indore Section 2. Public Health IV. Public Health in the Industrial Age Section 3. Industries; and New Industrial Town (Chapters V-VI) V. Regional Industries, Rural and Urban VI. Planning of Extension at Cotton Mill Area, as New Industrial Town (Naya Indore) Section 4. Water Supplies VII. Indore Water Supplies Section 5. Drainage; (Recent Scheme, made before Town Planning) VIII. Report on Recently Proposed Drainage Scheme for Indore Section 6. Extensions, Housing and Sanitation (Chapters IX-XIII) IX. Suburbs of Indore: Plague Camps, Gardon Villages, and Industrial Housing with appropriate Sanitation. X. Housing of Cotton Workers XI. Suburb Planning in Detail XII. Sanitary Problems Continued XIII. Constructive Problems Section 7. Park and Garden Designing, River Purification &c. (Chapters XIV-XXIII) XIV. Garden Designs for Indore City, abd their Bearings XV. Central Palace gardens and Avenues XVI. Chhatri Bagh, as Sarced Park of Indore XVII. Zoological Park XVIII. Zoological Garden Comlpeted; Pleasure Garden and Sports Park XIX. Further Gardens, Studious and Practical XX. Palace Gardens and Park XXI. Indore- River System XXII. Proposed Educational and Scientific Buildings XXIII. Indore Garden Schemes as Whole Section 8. Improvement of City Quarters (East Bank Chiefly) (Chapters XXIV-XXVI) XXIV. Improvement of Indore City Quarters XXV. City Quarters Continued XXVI. City Quarters Continued XXVII. City Quarters Continued Section 9. School Planning XXVIII. The Needed Re-planning of Schools as Open-Air Schools XXIX. School Planning Continued: Education for Life XXX. Housing Difficulties again Section 10. Improvement of City Quarters Continued (Chapters XXXI-XXXV) XXXI. City Quarters Continued: V. Ara Bazar XXXII. Central City Improvements VI XXXIII. City Quarters Continued: VII The Six Squares XXXIV. City Quarters Continued VIII Mohallas North of the Six Squares XXXV. Northward Suburbs IX XXXVI. Indore East of Railway Section 11. Cleansing and Drainage XXXVII. Cleansing before Drainage XXXVIII. Surface Drains XXXIX. Drainage after Town Planning and Cleansing: Proposed Drainage Scheme XL. Possible Future Underground Drainage Scheme Section 12. Railway Station and Western Suburbs XLI. Railway Station Neighbourhood XLII. Western and Northern Suburbs Volume II Section I I. Universalities in India and in Europe II. The Present Universality Situation III. University Renewal, as aided by Reconstruction after War IV. Beginning of the Past-Germanic University V. Central Library and Museum, and Theatre VI. Applications in Education VII. Wider Outlooks in Higher and Adult Education VIII. Further beginnings Towards the University of Indore IX. State Scientific Institutes, as nascent University Departments X. Faculties and Schools of the Modern University and Their Insufficiency for Indore XI. Constructive Proposal: School of Music XII. Further Constructive Proposals XIII. The Nascent University at Work in Indore XIV. Conditions for a New University XV. From "Examinations, and Research" to Research and Estimation XVI. Conclusion of University Report, though incomplete Section II XVII. Introductory to Estimates XVIII. Water and Drainage Estimates XIX. Estimates Continued: Improvements of Old City XX. Estimates Continued: New Communications etc. XXI. Estimates Continued: Gardens and Parks XXII. Institutes, Library &c. XXIII. Estimates Continued: New Housing in Old City for Poorer Classes XXIV. Estimates Continued: Layout of Industrial Town XXV. Summary of All Estimates Section III XXVI. Suggestions towards Procedure and Administration XXVII. The Needed Town Planning and Improvement Office and its Management Section IV XXVIII. Housing and Cleansing, in Old City Especially Housing Generally XXIX. Planning and Progress of the New Industrial Town XXX. Planning of Industrial Town (See Plan II) XXXI. Housing Forecast, and Building Estimates, for Industrial Town etc. XXXII. Garden Cities and their Critics: with Replies to These XXXIII. Industrial Efficiency and the Requirements of Housing Section V XXXIV. City Health Improvement as Productive Improvement: Plague Losses and Plague Measures XXXV. Public Health Losses of Indore, other than Plague; and Practical Measures XXXVI. Disease as Poverty; and Public Health as Public Wealth Section VI XXXVII. Proposed Civic Association: Friends of Indore XXXVIII. Public Generosities; Local Enterprises, Co-Operative banking, and Social Finance Section VII XXXIX. Indore as City State XL. The City Section VIII XLI. Essentials of the Present Report XLII. Agenda XLIII. Concluding Summary

Ray Bromley is Director of the Globalization Studies Program and Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the State University of New York at Albany, USA.