Patrick Geddes - Social Evolutionist and City Planner

Zusatztext `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 Informationen zum Autor Helen Meller Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Helen Meller, Meller Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.1994
• EAN: 9780415103930
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10393-0
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Social and cultural history, Human Geography, Biography: historical, political and military