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Think Global, Act Local: Life and Legacy of Patrick Geddes
Walter Stephen
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Description for Think Global, Act Local: Life and Legacy of Patrick Geddes
Paperback. New extended edition of this work which celebrates the life and legacy of Patrick Geddes: pioneer of town planning, interest-led, open-minded education and preservation of buildings with historical worth. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: AMVD; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. .
Town planning. Interest-led, open-minded education. Preservation of buildings with historical worth. All are so central to modern society that our age tends to claim these notions as its own. In fact they were first visualised by Sir Patrick Geddes, a largely forgotten Victorian Scot and one of the greatest forward thinkers in history. In turns a gardener, biologist, conservationist, social evolutionist and town planner, he spent many years conserving and restoring Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile at a time when most decaying buildings were simply torn down. With these plans of renovation came the importance of ... Read more
Town planning. Interest-led, open-minded education. Preservation of buildings with historical worth. All are so central to modern society that our age tends to claim these notions as its own. In fact they were first visualised by Sir Patrick Geddes, a largely forgotten Victorian Scot and one of the greatest forward thinkers in history. In turns a gardener, biologist, conservationist, social evolutionist and town planner, he spent many years conserving and restoring Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile at a time when most decaying buildings were simply torn down. With these plans of renovation came the importance of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
248g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910745090
SKU
V9781910745090
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Ref
99-2
About Walter Stephen
WALTER STEPHEN. as Publications Convener and former Chairman of the Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust, has been responsible for five books and several articles on Geddes. Arthur Geddes supervised his Geography dissertation at Edinburgh. In imitation of Geddes, he set up and ran for twenty years Castlehill Urban Studies Centre, the first successful Urban Studies Centre in Britain, in Cannonball ... Read more
Reviews for Think Global, Act Local: Life and Legacy of Patrick Geddes
Should be in every secondary school in Scotland. - SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT There is a distinct sanguinity rising from these pages regarding the free-wheeling, multidisciplinary, transcontinental life of Geddes. - SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS