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Globally, Act Locally National Journal Now, nearly 100 years after Patrick Geddes published Cities in Evolution, the book many assert gave rise to the concept of “Think Globally, Act Locally ... |
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Christopher Smout was awarded with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s
Geddes Environment Medal at an event in Perth Concert Hall on Monday 24th
March Professor Christopher Smout is Historiographer Royal in Scotland. After thirty two years at Edinburgh University, Smout founded the Institute for Environmental History and Policy at the University of St Andrews, and served as the Institute’s director from 1992 to 2001. His contributions to Environmental history helped to establish this relatively new discipline in Scotland, and drew on the close overlap with historical geography. |
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change: Think globally, act locally CBS News Now, nearly 100 years after Patrick Geddes published Cities in Evolution, the book many assert gave rise to theconcept of "Think Globally, Act Locally ... |
| Devolving
power – and the cuts The Guardian Set out as a "third way" in politics – not an invention of Blair, but of sociologists Patrick Geddes and Victor Branford in around 1914 – this was a radical ... |
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JAYAWARDENA MEMORIAL ORATION BY SECRETARY DEFENCE MR ... Ministry of Defence The 1921 city plan by Sir Patrick Geddes provided for expansions to the port, the setting up of parks and the zoological garden. ... |
| Thought
of the day from Carey McWilliams Spot.Us Their archangel is not Sir Thomas More or Patrick Geddes, but the promoter who promises to deliver, the salesman with enticing phrases, the business ... |
| Edinburgh
as you've never seen it before - through the Camera Obscura Telegraph.co.uk This was probably due to overexertion as much as anything else; the third owner, Patrick Geddes, used to make people climb the outside staircase to the top ... |
| Around
town Santa plans to keep little ones posted Scotsman A TALK about Patrick Geddes will take place at St ... Renewing Old Edinburgh: the enduring legacy of Patrick Geddes is by Jim Johnson and Lou Rosenburg, ... |
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Ronald Storrs: The Zionists labeled him Pontius Pilate - and ... Ha'aretz The Zionist Commission invited the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes to Jerusalem to plan the Hebrew University. In 1919, he submitted a master plan for ... |
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Garden City Blooms Again Wall Street Journal Mumford himself was deeply influenced by the work of Scottish polymath Patrick Geddes, who wrote "Cities in Evolution" (1915), and both men are central to .. |
| DRAMATIC
DESIRES Calcutta Telegraph A city, as Patrick Geddes said, is more than a place in space. It is indeed a drama in time. But its most dramatic moments blend so innocently with the ... |
| Downloading
the New Lefties as the cuts come down The Caledonian Mercury (Scottish supporters of Patrick Geddes and his garden city concepts might well be muttering: aye, we heard ye). And the greatest of all left intellectual ... |
| D8
puts design behind FORCE The Drum FORCE are reconvening a series of international meetings held by Patrick Geddes and colleagues 100 years ago, exploring the role of communities in ... |
| Edinburgh
Lectures: “The Urban Bioregion”, Alberto Magnaghi EdinburghGuide.com Evoking Sir Patrick Geddes' theories of the 'Valley Section' and the interconnectedness of everything, Alberto Magnaghi will try to lay out a concrete ... |
| Former
B Listed International College Offers Wealth of Opportunity Allmediascotland The properties are set within approximately an acre of stunning grounds, originally landscaped by Norah Geddes, daughter of Patrick Geddes responsible for ... |
| Who
now believes that university risks giving women a moustache? The Guardian In their book, The Evolution of Sex, biologist Patrick Geddes and J Arthur Thompson lobbied against higher education and a broader social role for women as ... |
| Poetry
Doubles comes to Castle Douglas Dumfries and Galloway Standard Her MLitt folio, Where Clouds Come To Die, won a Sir Patrick Geddes Award in March 2010. Fiona's training in agriculture and illustration help her make use ... |
| Edinburgh's
secret gardens Ottawa Citizen "I am inspired," said Bareham, "by Patrick Geddes, a city planner who, a century ago, believed that people can suffer from 'nature starvation. ... |
| Of
Abantikumar Sanyal and Romain Rolland The Daily Star This time he enclosed his book, Response in the Living and Non-Living (1902), and The Life and Work of JC Bose (1920), by Patrick Geddes. ... |
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admn could take a cue from century-old trust & master planner Times of India While the trust began its work in right earnest, the city also had the distinction of being among the few in the country to get help from Patrick Geddes, ... |
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to open on 'tiny' Edinburgh garden reserve BBC News The Scottish Wildlife Trust's smallest reserve, at the top of the Patrick Geddes steps, will be open on Saturday from 1000 BST until 1600 BST. ... |
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Head: The world's resources are running low; we need to ... Scotsman TWO weeks ago, I was asked by the Royal Town Planning Institute to deliver the annual Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial Lecture in Edinburgh, which seemed to me ... |
| Kelvin
Browne: Tel Aviv's taste for modernity National Post ... a British town planner hired in 1925 named Patrick Geddes. "Geddes proposed a local variation on the garden-city theme with a north-to-south orientation ... |
| Realizing
the Relevance and Power of Liberian Women: An Epiphany ... Peace and Conflict Monitor For example, Patrick Geddes, an 18/19th century town planner, writer and professor of biology from a Scottish background wrote on a wide range of social ... |
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D'Arcy networks from beyond the grave Times Higher Education Patrick Geddes, a biologist and a friend of Sir D'Arcy who died in 1932, also has a Facebook profile. Sadly, it appears that their friendship may not have ... |
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Quality: An Exploration of the Myths, Lies and Misperceptions Salem-News.Com We do that “Think globally, act locally” schtick encouraged by Irish (sic) planner and social activist Patrick Geddes. What's hysterical is that most of the crap ... |
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plotting a passage to India The Herald ... Bengali poet and Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, there will be a focus on his friendship with the Scots philanthropist Sir Patrick Geddes. ... |
| Scotland
to be promoted as a film location to Bollywood DailyIndia.com To celebrate the two countries' cultural ties, there will be a focus on the friendship between Scots philanthropist Sir Patrick Geddes and the Nobel ... |
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Best Way to Keep Buildings Green is Not to Build New Ones Green Prophet Tel Aviv is one of the few cities in the world where the architectural ideas of Sir Patrick Geddes are being designed as World Heritage sites by the UN ... |
| Build
a better city Toronto Star As the great Scot and 19th-century city planner Patrick Geddes wrote, idealism and "matter of fact" are inseparable: "Our daily steps are guided by ideals ... |
| Rethinking
the architect Varsity So we look at figures like Patrick Geddes, who invented the regional planning and the concept of bioregionalism and the effects of man as actor and agent on ... |
| The
Camera Obscura's getting bigger..and that's no illusion Edinburgh Evening News In 1892 it was bought by Sir Patrick Geddes who opened it as an Outlook Tower, which later became the Camera Obscura. It was taken over by Visitor Centres ... |
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is the White City? Times of India Located in Tel Aviv, Israel, the White City was constructed from the early 1930s to 1950s, based on an urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes. ... |
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Hotel Showcases the Best of Auld Reekie's Heritage Allmediascotland These included a set of stained glass panels celebrating one of Scotland's most famous sons, Sir Patrick Geddes, who was celebrated across the world for his ... |
| Indore:
The sleepy town that woke up to New India Times of India - New Delhi,India The municipal corporation seemed lethargic, barely aware of Patrick Geddes town plan of 1918. Only the cloth and grain markets and the bazaars hummed, ... |
| Ten
years on, £80m conference centre extension gets go-ahead Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Community leaders have accused the hostel owner of ruining a community garden named after town planner Patrick Geddes by chopping down trees and earmarking ... |
| Sea
Lions could face axe from Edinburgh Zoo Deadline Press & Picture Agency - Edinburgh,Lothian,UK “The sea lion pool and big cat enclosures are part of the original Sir Patrick Geddes designed zoo and therefore care must be taken in carrying out ... |
| Kin
for speedy trial in Papiya murder case Times of India - New Delhi,India Earlier, delivering the 3rd Papiya Ghosh Memorial Lecture on "Patrick Geddes and Indian Nationalism making a difference", Jamia Millia Islamia former ... |
| Fraser
Suites opens 'Landmark' hotel on historic Edinburgh site Deadline Press & Picture Agency - Edinburgh,Lothian,UK ... such as the Princes Suite which boasts historic stained glass panels bearing the motto of renowned Edinburgh city planner Sir Patrick Geddes. ... |
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Town puts indoor food market on menu Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK And a Green Spaces Project inspired by the work of Patrick Geddes will aim to get everyone in the area working to create community gardens. ... |
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Parliament debates Central Scotland Green Network DeHavilland - London,Greater London,UK Indeed, she was writing at the beginning of what Patrick Geddes, who I think stands behind all this to a great extent, called the paleotechnic age, ... |
| Sofia
Leonard: Window makes Geddes' pioneering work clearer Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... 4 November) and I congratulated him on highlighting the importance of the discovery of three stained glass panels linked to Sir Patrick Geddes. ... |
| Renovators
uncover stained glass linked to Sir Patrick Geddes Edinburgh Evening News |
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Land
row threatens future of city primary school's 'eco-garden' plan |
| Outstanding
flat in 'Edinburgh's best address' for sale Country Life - UK Although the architect was nominally Professor Henbest Capper, it is generally accepted that the inspiration came from Patrick Geddes, sociologist and town ... |
| When
style was substance: Mumbai in the 1930s Hindu Business Line - Chennai,India ... prominent British architects like Claude Batley and Patrick Geddes, head of the Sociology Department of Bombay University and a sprinkling of Indians. ... |
| Into
the White City North Shore Magazine - IL,USA ... of the commercial center to Tel Aviv, and a Scotsman named Sir Patrick Geddes began planning what became the first Hebrew city of modern times. ... |
| The
future of Gandhism Express Buzz - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India Patrick Geddes, the town planner and biologist, made a distinction between two eras of industrialism. The first, which he called Paleolithic, ... |
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City Reinvents Itself Beyond Conflict New York Times - New York,NY,USA Tel Aviv's “intimate big city” feel dates back to its original design as a garden city by Scottish biologist-turned-urban-planner Patrick Geddes. ... |
| Let
History Inform the Debate over Tel Aviv at the Toronto International Film
Festival History News Network - Seattle,WA,USA Tel Aviv rebuffed periodic attempts to plan its development “for the good of Greater Jaffa,” as the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes advised in 1925, ... |
| Alternative
histories, alternative futures Express Buzz - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India One misses the possibility of a South Asian University conceived on the original cosmopolitanism of Tagore's Santiniketan or Patrick Geddes' idea of a ... |
| Hotel
Missoni, Edinburgh by Allan Murray Architects Architects' Journal - London,UK However, even Patrick Geddes, the father of 'conservative surgery', might be shocked to see how the conservation of Edinburgh's fabric now trumps local ... |
| Debt,
Disney and Delhi Property Week News - London,England,UK Biopolis is an analysis of Patrick Geddes's ideas on architecture and planning. ... Although Geddes is much respected, his ideas have had limited impact ... |
| Living
with the Garden City The News International - Karachi,Pakistan It was Ebenezer Howard, the urban planner, and Patrick Geddes, ... Between 1919 and 1925, Patrick Geddes had spent some time as a professor of sociology and ... |
| The
hyphenated city Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel ... there to Ahuzat Bayit and from there to Scottish planner Patrick Geddes' Garden City in the old north, on to Ramat Aviv, Ramat Aviv Gimmel and so on. ... |
| Inspiration
of an empty building allows a fresh vision for art show The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK "It's all about having a sense of place," she explains, citing the philosophy of Ballater-born Sir Patrick Geddes, regarded by many as being the founding ... |
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who created Tel Aviv hailed in city's centenary celebrations Scotsman - United Kingdom Scot who created Tel Aviv hailed in city's centenary celebrations - AS TEL AVIV last night began a series of celebrations to mark the 100th birthday of the city, quiet and unassuming tributes were paid to a Scot who defined its shape and form. |
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yillik bir serüven: Tel-Aviv Salom - Istanbul,Turkey O dönemin Ingiliz yöneticisi Sir Patrick Geddes, modern bir sehir plani çizerek, Tel-Aviv'i imar etmeye karar verdi. Kent, 'bahçe-sehir' konseptine göre ... |
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gift to itself Hindu - Chennai, India In the best universities, as Patrick Geddes noted, research in the sciences must relate to nature and to society. Departments of physics and engineering ... |
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Floating Commonwealth, by Christopher Harvie Independent - London,England,UK ... and what Engels had called the "avocati": pushy, ideological writers and thinkers like Thomas Carlyle, John Buchan and Patrick Geddes. ... |
| On
summer schools New Statesman - London,England,UK The pioneer of summer schools in these islands is, beyond question, Professor Patrick Geddes. His school, on Castle Hill, Edinburgh, was the first ... |
| The
view from above The National - Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates And similar ideas about vision and knowledge had been in the air when he was at Oxford, where he had met Patrick Geddes, a Scottish scientist and city ... |
| Burning
Issue: Does Caltongate's approval show heritage issues ... Scotsman - United Kingdom One of the great principles of urban conservation in Edinburgh, dating back to the time of Patrick Geddes, is that any interventions into the existing ... |
| Christopher
Harvie Profile guardian.co.uk - UK A civic nationalist and greenish republican, Harvie's social beliefs owe much to Marxism, as modified by Gramsci, the sociology of Patrick Geddes and a ... |
| Apparatus
of Capture - Architecture in Israel-Palestine, 60 Years On Archinect - USA Patrick Geddes planned Tel Aviv in a manner which limited congestion and provided space and air, and at the same time deliberately cut it off from the ... |
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tale of Tel Aviv National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada In 1925, the first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, suggested it was time to impose a little order on the chaos and engaged British planner Patrick Geddes, ... |
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paves paradise, builds huge downtown parking lots Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel "The shortage in parking stems from the Patrick Geddes plan from the turn of the last century, which did not take into consideration today's traffic needs," ... |
| Plaque
honours Ballater scientist Deeside Today - Banchory,Scotland,UK By Danny Law Sir Patrick Geddes, a highly acclaimed Scottish scientist and town planner, was born in Ballater on October 2, 1854. ... |
| BOOK
RACK Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India Patrick Geddes in India; Foreword by Ramachandra Guha (Select Books, 2007, pp 102, Price not mentioned) Patrick Geddes was one of the most dynamic and ... |
| Jerusalem
deconstructed Jerusalem Post - Israel ... and in 1921 civil governor of Jerusalem and Judea - commissioned Scottish town planner Sir Patrick Geddes to draw up a master plan for the city. ... |
| Designing
cities Hindu - Chennai,India His contemporaries may have celebrated him as a Scottish Darwin, but Patrick Geddes was not bound by any particular discipline. He traversed the boundaries ... |
| History
starts and ends local Guardian Unlimited - UK Like Lawson and Clark half a century ago (and as I now recognise, behind them the ideas of Patrick Geddes) by working out from the known to the unknown. ... |
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dream come true as Phamie makes a date with a legend Scotsman - United Kingdom Sir Patrick Geddes, who designed Ramsay Garden, has inspired me in life because he came up with the phrase: 'By creating we think, by living we learn'. ... |
| Crunch
time for historical Old Town? Guardian Unlimited - UK Opposition to the Mountgrange scheme has been greatly stiffened by its perceived affront to the memory of Sir Patrick Geddes, a Victorian-Edwardian polymath ... |
| "Burying
bad gas" Guardian Unlimited - UK Though "ecology" was invented by two Victorian Scots, Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, and broadcast worldwide by two others: John Muir and Patrick Geddes, ... |
| "Scotland
flies the Atlantic" Guardian Unlimited - UK Perhaps the most fateful Scots-American partnership social planner was between the ecologist Patrick Geddes and the American town planner Lewis Mumford, ... |
| 'Still
time to halt Caltongate plan' Scotsman - United Kingdom Caltongate is a large site that needs to be redeveloped but unless we follow the principles set out by Sir Patrick Geddes, who advocated that new ... |
| A
day in the life of Patrick Geddes Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India Environmentalist, thinker and city planner, Patrick Geddes spared no sphere of activity that contributed to the welfare of humanity. ... |
| "Resisting,
Subverting and Destroying the Apparatus of Surveillance and Control" Infoshop News - USA Patrick Geddes, the great urban thinker from Edinburgh and friend of Kropotkin's, was the first one to see that the dependency of the city and its ... |
| Opening
up the countryside Perthshire Advertiser - Perthshire,UK Planning has also started for a Geddes Route to link Perth-Kinnoull and promote non-motorised access from the town to Kinnoull Hill. "Patrick Geddes is ... |
| Common
ground Guardian Unlimited - UK The Indian Congress was founded in 1885 by Allan Hume, and Patrick Geddes was, next to Gandhi, the greatest influence on Nehru. James Bryce's federal ideas ... |
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Hartley Scotsman - United Kingdom It was to be a homage to Patrick Geddes and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Gardens had a special meaning for both. For Geddes, public or shared gardens make our ... |
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back time and retrieve Dizengoff Square Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel The square is part of the original urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, and was designed by architect Genia Averbuch. An idea to build a parking lot under the ... |
| In
full bloom Scotsman - United Kingdom ... as the EIF project is called, explores art and the shaping of the urban garden and takes its inspiration from the work of Sir Patrick Geddes. ... |
| Art
lovers will be comforted by this Scotsman - United Kingdom ... historic buildings will be one to look out for." The Jardins Publics exhibition has been inspired by Edinburgh's celebrated town planner Sir Patrick Geddes. |
| We
shall remember Scotsman - United Kingdom A discursion into the writings of one of that building's most celebrated residents, Patrick Geddes, provides insight into the underlying ethos of the ... |
| Developers
must show city respect Scotsman - United Kingdom Back in the 1890s, Edinburgh's own Patrick Geddes called this "conservative surgery" - operating only where necessary. New developments need to draw ... |
| Talent
that knew no limits, and changed Scotland for ever The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK ... movement and artists such as Walter Crane and William Morris, towards Patrick Geddes's vision of an all-embracing "organic" education for Edinburgh. ... |
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garden comes out of the shadows Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK The garden was created more than 100 years ago by Sir Patrick Geddes, the 19th century sociologist and town planner who designed the Outlook Tower and ... |
| Riddle's
of the past explored in new project Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... and the personalities who lived, worked, learned or performed here, including David Hume, Patrick Geddes, Jack Kane and the cast of Monty Python." |
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Scottish books that will change your life Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Anyone walking through the Old Town (for the time being) could apply these words to Sir Patrick Geddes, the influential ecologist, urban planner, ... |
| Hunter's
trophies of knowledge Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Patrick Geddes, heir to the generalist ideals that Hunter's collection so magnificently illustrates, remarked that without art to preserve the human ... |
| Red
flag, red dragon Scottish Left Review - UK In South Wales we may be getting closer to Patrick Geddes’ ‘Walestown’, where the capital (now with the prestige of Richard Rogers’ near-legislature and the ... |
| Letters
extra Guardian Unlimited - UK We need more of the Patrick Geddes triptych in our approach, ie being fit for planet, for people and purpose - something our planners have missed in many ... |
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trip to see the lights is fantastic Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Yet another change of ownership occurred in 1892 when Patrick Geddes took over and named it the Outlook Tower, regenerating the operation. ... |
| Scotland’s
election, history’s tides Open Democracy - London,UK And in Fife, where the great Patrick Geddes undertook his first town-planning schemes in the 1890s, there's plenty of scope for a linear city - a necklace ... |
| It's
the birth of a new registrar office Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Other options include naming the building after Greyfriars Kirk, St Giles' Cathedral, George IV Bridge itself, town planner Sir Patrick Geddes, ... |
| Backstabbing
in the depths as coral bleaching foreshadows a new ... Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK In particular, he is writing in opposition to the famous Edinburgh biologist Sir Patrick Geddes, who tried to apply biological lessons to the fields of ... |
| Shaky
in its compass Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... about how we experience time and space, ideas current in artistic circles in Scotland through Bergson's friendship with Patrick Geddes. ... |
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A
new era begins |
| Castles
in the air Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv, Israel Goodovitch speaks of the contribution of Sir Patrick Geddes to planning Tel Aviv. In Paris, 150 years ago, Baron Osman planned a renewed and beautiful ... |
| A
conjectural history Guardian Unlimited - UK ... but a balanced civic industrialisation adapted to what the country's foremost social thinker, Patrick Geddes, called the "neotechnic" epoch, ... |
| Gift
of entitlement is nearly worthless Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... this of Craigmillar, and if that connection seems absurd remember Craigmillar was an idealistic project in a tradition that went back to Patrick Geddes. ... |
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much should a person consume? Down to Earth (subscription) - New Delhi,India Some of his strongest praise is heaped on the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes, the us thinker Lewis Mumford and the Indian ecologist—Guha’s ... |
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the right trail Perthshire Advertiser - Perthshire,UK Sir Patrick Geddes, one of the foremost thinkers in Victorian Britain, spent his early years being schooled in Perth before travelling the world and ... |
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what cost consumption? Hindu - Chennai,India In his list of true activists are Scottish internationalist Patrick Geddes, who toured India early in the 20th century and provided a perceptive analysis of ... |
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pleasant pane East Lothian Courier - Haddington,Scotland,UK With a £10000 budget, Kate spent most of last summer working on the panel, which commemorates Sir Patrick Geddes, the planner and scientist born in 1854 who ... |
| Bell,
Tom, 1867-1942 libcom.org - London,UK He established a friendship there with Patrick Geddes, the biologist and town planner and persuaded him to bring over Elisée Reclus, the anarchist and ... |
| Having
the time of his lives Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK The concept - first proposed seriously by the French poet Denis Saurat in 1924, though the term was bandied about by Patrick Geddes and MacDiarmid ... |
| City
takes panes to remember Geddes Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK According to architect Ben Tindall, chairman of the Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust and responsible for Edinburgh's Hub building, "he wanted to breathe life ... |
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internationalist Hindu - Chennai,India His name was Patrick Geddes, and he was born in 1854, in Scotland. After making a considerable reputation as a town planner in Europe, he came to India in ... |
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poor will inherit the earth. Yes, but how? HardNews Magazine - New Delhi,India But few have perhaps heard of Patrick Geddes, the biologist who was a contemporary of Lutyens and Baker, and who was summoned by the prince to replan Indore ... |
| Capital
of the Pallavas Hindu - Chennai,India Patrick Geddes, the famous Scotish town planner, visited Kanchipuram in 1914 and remarked that he has not seen a great town like this anywhere else. ... |
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beautiful re-union Guardian Unlimited - UK ... in regional planning: something that had its Scots origins, in the 18th-century model villages and the geographical and sociological efforts of Patrick Geddes. ... |
| Bold
horizons Scotsman - United Kingdom ... Here, in Old Town, New Town, No Town Gross.Max claim Patrick Geddes as their inspiration, restating the complexities that those dire planners ignored, leaving ... |
| Where
nature meets the city Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada ... During the Hamilton visit, we learn about the City Beautiful movement and contributions made by Scottish planner Patrick Geddes (1854-1931) to urban design in ... |
| How
a nation found its voice Scotsman - United Kingdom ... The recovery of Scottish confidence in our own literature was a slow process. It began at the end of the 19th century with RL Stevenson and Patrick Geddes. ... |
| The
case for a tale of multiple cities Scotsman - United Kingdom ... I propose - picking up where the visionary planner Patrick Geddes left off a century ago - a counter-geography of Edinburgh, by thinking of the city beyond the ... |
| Great
Scotswomen Scotsman - United Kingdom ... Among her friends were Lord Brougham, Patrick and Anna Geddes and, in Paris, Paul Desjardins. Her now-forgotten novels included ... |
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Problem
of plenty: Heritage buildings of Calcutta |
| Take
a step back in time on fine hill jaunt Scotsman - United Kingdom ... Road to the right. The zoo was first laid out in 1913 by Sir Patrick Geddes and Frank Mears, but has been continually developed. ... |
| Mettle
needed to forge the future at Ravenscraig Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... He might start by recalling the work of that great Scottish thinker, Patrick Geddes, regarded as one of the founders of modern town planning, whose mantra ... |
| Dullness
fades Guardian Unlimited - UK ... Our children may want to be dead, since we are far along the motorway to Necropolis, as the Scots social thinker Patrick Geddes called an environment wrecked ... |
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Former
Brown Ally Selected to Fight Kirkcaldy Seat |
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Shades
of green |
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AZ for one track minds Scotsman - United Kingdom ... not mention Heathcote Williams' The Speakers (which follows four lunatic Hyde Park orators), Patrick Hamilton or the Edinburgh thinker Patrick Geddes as part ... |
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EDI's
Tron project wins RICS Scotland Regeneration Award |
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Edinburgh
- The Truman Show's architect dreams of a Highland ... |
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A
great flat if you like Tattoos |
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at risk of being 'clone city', says Charles Scotsman - United Kingdom ... Quoting Edinburgh's planning pioneer, Patrick Geddes, the prince said "town planning must be folk planning". "Tradition, in truth, is not about style. ... |
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Mike
Davis on a Planet of Slums |
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Lighthouse
on a low coast - I |
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City's
gardens green for go |
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Godmother
of the American City |
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Seeds
sown for man who saved Edinburgh's Old Town |
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Good
plans pass test of time |
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Tel
Aviv, the white city |
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Tel
Aviv, The White City |
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City
children get ready to think globally |
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Sculptress
in on a glass act to honour Patrick Geddes |
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Great
Scot! Experience Glasgow and Edinburgh From $799 |
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Green
for go as gardens and parks to open gates to public |
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Top
artists compete to carve memorial for Old Town saviour |
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The
man who saved Edinburgh's Old Town |
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Mansion
could be good as zoo |
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feather in our cap Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... and the systems by which we seek to control its production, comes a further parallel with the social and moral thinking of another great Scot - Patrick Geddes. ... |
| UQAM
hosts Tel Aviv architectural exhibit Canadian Jewish News - North York,ON,Canada ... Based on the designs of Scottish urban planner Sir Patrick Geddes, the northern part of Tel Aviv was to be modelled on a "European garden city.". ... |
| Sculpture
planned for new HQ Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... City leaders have already revealed plans to pay tribute to Sir Patrick Geddes, regarded as the father of modern town planning, by installing a glass panel ... |
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thread of pride Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... These might include, for example, Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, David Hume (1711-76) and Patrick Geddes (1854-1932). ... |
| Respecting
architectural legacy - and the audience Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel ... a renewed center for performing arts, one of high quality and high safety standards, in the spirit of the design concept of architect Patrick Geddes, the first ... |
| The
timeless appeal of Auld Reekie Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... For example, Patrick Geddes, arguable the father of the modern concept of "sustainable development", was drawn to the city in 1900 from Dundee; Richard Meier ... |
| Showing
off in Venice Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... artist Pistoletto has taken over a whole island in the lagoon for an idealistic educational project very reminiscent of the Third Paradise by Patrick Geddes. ... |
| Reach
for the skyline Peninsula On-line - Qatar ... In 1890 Patrick Geddes, an eccentric Scottish polymath, acquired an old observatory beside the castle, high above the Scottish capital, and turned it into the ... |
| Creating
a Tel Aviv for all ages Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel ... Since the first and only master plan for Tel Aviv, drafted by Scottish architect Patrick Geddes in the 1930s, the city had no master plan. ... |
| Trip
to art's utopia starts in Dundee Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... Back in the gallery, Sustersic has framed two pieces of writing by the great Arts and Crafts champion and social reformer Patrick Geddes in which the one-time ... |
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