Apropos Scott's book, attaching image of drawings by Patrick Geddes (taken from Ram Guha's book).
Geddes was a Scottish sociologist/town planner who proposed what he called 'conservative surgery' which didn't quite find favour with city engineer and planners of the time.
Image A - the city's proposal to 'decongest' parts of Thanjavur with the introduction of a grid iron pattern of roads.
Image C - Geddes's scheme for the same , retaining the 'character' of the old town. He also calculated the cost as about 1/6 the cost of the city's scheme.
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