Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932 (biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner)
Dates
- Existence: 1854 - 1932
Biography
Patrick Geddes was born in Ballater, Aberdeenshire on 2 October 1854. He was educated at Perth Academy and then studied at the Royal College of Mines in London, 1874-1878. He lectured in Zoology at Edinburgh University, 1880-1888. He held the Chair of Botany at University College, Dundee, from 1888 to 1919, and the Chair of Sociology at the University of Bombay from 1919 to 1924. Geddes was actively occupied in city improvement, town planning, and educational initiatives at home, on the continent, and in India. He drew up a city plan for both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and he developed the Cité Universitaire Mediterranéenne (Collège des Écossais) at Montpellier, France, and the educational facility at the Outlook Tower, Edinburgh.
Geddes was knighted in 1932. His publications included: Evolution of sex, with Sir J. Arthur Thomson; Cities in evolution; and The life and work of Sir Jagadis C. Bose. He died in France, at Montpellier, on 17 April 1932. Geddes was an influence on subsequent British urban planners.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Sir Patrick Geddes, 12 January 1923
Letter, 12 January 1923, Bombay, Patrick Geddes to Donald Tovey. Description of the planning Geddes is doing in India and Jerusalem and asking Tovey how he would like a music faculty in a University to be designed, what are his requirements, to help Geddes in his work. Holograph signed.
The Cities and Town Planning Exhibitions, 1831 - 1917
Typescript by Edward McGegan entitled 'Notes on Patrick Geddes as Man of Action', early 1930s
160 pp copy quarto typescript by Edward McGegan.
University of Edinburgh: Mound Lawnmarket Comprehensive Development Area, 1968-1974
University of Edinburgh: Mound Lawnmarket Comprehensive Development Area consists of:
- architectural model, (1968)
- report, (1969-1974)
- Outlook Tower feasibility study, (1969-1974)
- New College renovations, (1969-1974)
- Mylne's Court renovation, (1964-1970)