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Patrick Geddes
The essential problem in a study of Geddes is that it is difficult to cite any one particular doctrine providing his final definition of planning. He did not develop his theories in any one single systematic work. He left articles, lectures, pamphlets and innumerable reports on the subject out of …
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Patrick Geddes: Synthetic Vision
… the beginning of the twentieth century, Scotsman Patrick Geddes introduced methods of investigation commensurate with other sciences. A biologist, trained by Thomas Huxley, Geddes borrowed the practices of the microscopical laboratory in creating the Outlook Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland which …
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Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Renascence of the 1890s
… had many pasts to choose from for inspiration. Patrick Geddes found inspiration in its Celtic past. Geddes is best known for his work as a town planner and sociologist, but has been under-valued for his work as the leader of the 1890s cultural movement in Edinburgh, the Celtic Renascence. In an …
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Organic cities and the case of Patrick Geddes in Dhaka
… in the Indian tradition of founding of a city. Patrick Geddes the Scotish town planner came with a huge enthusiasm to work in India. On his eastern sojourn he came to Dhaka to produce a masterplan for the city. He perceived a regenerative organic dimension in the cities form and function, …
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The Causeway: Bridging Disaster Relief, Recovery, and Climate Adaptation in the Anton Ruiz Watershed
… and designers including J.B. Jackson and Patrick Geddes. My approach works from the scale of the Antón Ruíz watershed to the delta to uncover the historical and contemporary processes that knit people in the region to the land. I identify commonalities in the immediate recovery needs and …
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A natural quartet: working with nature for a humane 21st century
… and circumstances. The great planners include Patrick Geddes, Frederick Law Olmstead and John Law Olmstead, Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg among others. From the perspective of the quartet, contemporary planning techniques of working with nature are examined. Examples of how the quartet can be …
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Phantom narratives: architectural analogies of site specific memories
… section of a valley. By imposing the drawings of Patrick Geddes' Valley Section of Civilization1 onto the section of the City Bowl, a possible lens through which the development of the city can be understood is created by the relationship between the physical attributes of these two drawings. …
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Regionalism and Greek architecture : the architecture of Dimitris and Suzana Antonakakis
… of development and cultural change. The work of Patrick Geddes at the turn of the century--set in comparative distinction against the "romantic regionalism" of the character movement--is briefly mentioned as the most valid doctrinal body of regionalist practice and theory up to our days. It sets …
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Bioregions and future state visioning: a visually integrative approach to the presentation of information for environmental policy and management.
… contemporaneous regionalist planners such as Patrick Geddes and Lewis Mumford. However, it was not until the early 1970s that Alan van Newkirk coined the phrase 'Bioregion'. Since then there has been steady growth in bioregional literature that clearly aligns it to ecocentric philosophies that …