Lawrence Kohlberg
American psychologist
Patrick Geddes
British biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology.
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About the Patrick Geddes
Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology. His works contain one of the earliest examples of the ‘think globally, act locally’ concept in social science.
Following the philosophies of Auguste Comte and Frederic LePlay, he introduced the concept of “region” to architecture and planning and coined the term “conurbation”. Later, he elaborated “neotechnics” as the way of remaking a world apart from over-commercialization and money dominance.
An energetic Francophile, Geddes was the founder in 1924 of the College des Ecossais (Scots College), an international teaching establishment in Montpellier, France, and in the 1920s he bought the Chateau d’Assas to set up a centre for urban studies.
3 Quotes by Patrick Geddes
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
Patrick GeddesBritish biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
Patrick GeddesBritish biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
Patrick GeddesBritish biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)