One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning, providing a scholarly yet accessible account for those interested in the history of planning, urban design, social theory and nineteenth century British history.
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It is not the first biography of Geddes, but as a work of scholarship it is probably the best.
–Town and Country Planning
. . . rich in detail and perceptive in analysis, unquestionably a work of real scholarship on Geddes which is unlikely to be bettered.
–Planning Perspectives
. . . a masterpiece of intellectual biography . . . if anyone wants to know the full and rich truth about this engaging, protean giant of post-Darwinian intellectual life, they must turn to Helen Meller. After hers, there is no need for further biographies of Geddes.
–History Workshop Journal
–Town and Country Planning
. . . rich in detail and perceptive in analysis, unquestionably a work of real scholarship on Geddes which is unlikely to be bettered.
–Planning Perspectives
. . . a masterpiece of intellectual biography . . . if anyone wants to know the full and rich truth about this engaging, protean giant of post-Darwinian intellectual life, they must turn to Helen Meller. After hers, there is no need for further biographies of Geddes.
–History Workshop Journal
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Hellen Meller is Reader in Economic and Social History at the University of Nottingham.
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THERE HAS BEEN A RENEWAL OF INTEREST IN THE IDEAS and planning philosophy of Sir Patrick Geddes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Patrick Geddes, Outlook Tower, Arthur Thomson, Victor Branford, New York, Kegan Paul, Scottish Geographical Magazine, Indore Report, Lewis Mumford, Royal Geographical Society, Central Zionist Archives, Raymond Unwin, Sociological Review, Zionist Commission, British Association, Edinburgh University, United States, Octavia Hill, University of Strathclyde, Herbert Spencer, National Geographical Institute, Patrick Abercrombie, Rabindranath Tagore, William Sharp, Dunfermline Report New!
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THERE HAS BEEN A RENEWAL OF INTEREST IN THE IDEAS and planning philosophy of Sir Patrick Geddes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regional survey movement, civic reconstruction, reconstruction doctrine, civic survey, town planning movement, geographical institute, modern town planning, museum movement, preliminary sciences, sociological society, marine station, valley section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Patrick Geddes, Outlook Tower, Arthur Thomson, Victor Branford, New York, Kegan Paul, Scottish Geographical Magazine, Indore Report, Lewis Mumford, Royal Geographical Society, Central Zionist Archives, Raymond Unwin, Sociological Review, Zionist Commission, British Association, Edinburgh University, United States, Octavia Hill, University of Strathclyde, Herbert Spencer, National Geographical Institute, Patrick Abercrombie, Rabindranath Tagore, William Sharp, Dunfermline Report New!
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