Abstract
The need is urgent for an organized, systematic surveying and mapping program of all land and water bodies, and particularly cities and towns, with their evergrowing complexity, heavy concentration of population, and resultant problems. Most of a country’s population (in some countries, over 80% of the total population) live in cities and towns, where decisions on the social, economic, cultural, and political future of the countries are made. Most children spend the formative years of childhood and adolescence in cities. With the rapidly increasing world population, which apparently will double within the next 30 years, the situation in many cities will deteriorate further. Worst of all, if the present trend of negligence continues, yet unbuilt cities, especially those of the emerging countries, will develop into monstrous slums.
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