Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner
Author(s): Helen Meller (Author)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: January 6, 1994
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 0415103932
ISBN-13: 9780415103930
Book Description
This recent analysis of Patrick Geddes’ life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning, providing a scholarly yet accessible account for students of the history of planning, urban design, social theory and British history.
Editorial Reviews
Review
`This is a very persuasive and honest book without any superficial dazzle.’ – Iain Crichton Smith, Glasgow Herald
`… This most detailed study gives a fascinating insight into the life and work of a notable `maverick of the social sciences’ and it deserves to be widely read.’ – English Historical Review
From the Back Cover
One of the great thinkers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Sir Patrick Geddes enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. A figure of international importance in the history of modern town planning and environmental studies, he pioneered a sociological approach to the study of urbanization. Central to his beliefs was the intimate linking of spatial form and social processes. His work and passion have become an inspiration to all those who seek to make sense of the city and modern life.
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