Biography of patrick geddes
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Patrick Geddes
Scottish human and community planner (1854–1932)
Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE | |
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Geddes envisage 1931 | |
| Born | 2 Oct 1854 Ballater, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Died | 17 Apr 1932(1932-04-17) (aged 77) Scots College, Montpellier, France |
| Alma mater | Royal Secondary of Mines |
| Known for | Urban planning topmost the outline conurbation |
| Spouse | Anna Geddes |
| Children | Norah Geddes |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology, urbanised planning, biology |
| Institutions | Lecturer in Biology, University insinuate Edinburgh (1880–1888) Professor of Biology, University College, Dundee (1888–1919) Professor of Civics & Sociology, Bombay College, India (1920–1923) |
| Patrons | John Sinclair, Ordinal Baron Pentland |
Fellow of interpretation Royal The public of Capital (1880) | |
Sir Patrick GeddesFRSE (2 Oct 1854 – 17 Apr 1932) was a Scots biologist,[2] sociologist, Comteanpositivist, geographer, philanthropist weather pioneering
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Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)
By living we learn
Patrick Geddes.
Patrick Geddes was a man of diverse interests and talents. Today he is probably best known as a town planner. However, he has also been described as a biologist, sociologist, conservationist, educationist, and ecologist.
Geddes did much to improve the living conditions in his local environment and was also a figure of international importance. He travelled widely and corresponded with key thinkers and writers of the time such as Charles Darwin, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.
Above all, his aim was 'to see life whole', and to achieve a better understanding of human beings in their natural, built, and social environments. His ideas and concerns about the environment, education, and conservation are still as relevant today as they were in his own time.
In this video, Senior Manuscripts Curator Olive Geddes introduces items relating to Patrick Geddes in the National Library of Scotland's collections.
Patrick Geddes was born in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, on 2 October 1854. He spent his childhood in Perthshire and attended Perth Academy. He had a lifelong contempt for examinations and never took a university degree. After a period of private study, he chose botany as his subject
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Although Patrick Geddes is best known for his work in town planning, he deserves recognition as a founding and contributing editor to the 1890s periodical The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal. Despite its short publication history, consisting of only four issues produced from 1895 to 1897, The Evergreen offered a significant alternative to The Yellow Book and other periodicals with aesthetic and modern agendas. Instead of following these trends away from the socially engaged art and literature of the past, The Evergreen went back to the future to revive a sense of community involvement that Geddes believed was needed in his day. This mining of a local past for ore to construct what might now be called a “glocal” present reflects the approach and values that Geddes used in town planning. For him, the built environment was also a cultural environment, and urban renewal required the participation of people from all walks of life. Geddes’s experiment with publishing a periodical exploring the Celtic heritage of his native Scotland, neighbouring Ireland, and France was part of his effort to draw “intellectuals” and “emotionals” (as he and his collaborator Victor Branford (1863-1930) habitually called writers and artists) away from modern alienation and engage them in civic a