Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner
Author:   Helen Meller
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781138155985


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   27 February 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner


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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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Author:   Helen Meller
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138155985


ISBN 10:   1138155985
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   27 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Formative Years: A Biologist's Viewpoint 3. Practical Experiments in Social Evolution 4. Museums, Actual and Possible 5. Maverick in the Social Sciences 6. The Sociologists of the Town Planning Movement 7. The Challenge of India and Palestine 8. Social Reconstruction in India and Palestine 9. Regional Survey in the International Context: The Legacy of Geddes

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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


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