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Patrick Geddes

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Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. [1]

69 relations: Aberdeenshire (historic), Architecture, Arthur Thomson (naturalist), Ballater, Camera obscura, Camera Obscura (Edinburgh), Cebrià de Montoliu, Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Collège des Écossais, Montpellier, Conservation (ethic), Conurbation, David Eder, Dharavi, Earl of Hyndford, Eastern philosophy, Ecology, Edinburgh Zoo, Encyclopædia Britannica, Evolution, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, France, Francophile, Frank Mears, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Geddes Plan (Tel Aviv), Green politics, Grid plan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Herbert Spencer, India, Indore, James Cadenhead, Jane Jacobs, John Burdon-Sanderson, John Duncan (painter), John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, Lewis Mumford, List of urban theorists, Longman, Mandatory Palestine, Meir Dizengoff, Montpellier, New Urbanism, Old Town, Edinburgh, Palestine (region), Perth Academy, Philip Mairet, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Radhakamal Mukerjee, Ramachandra Guha, ..., Ramsay Gardens, Raymond Unwin, Robert Burns (artist), Routledge, Royal School of Mines, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, Scottish Renaissance, SMS Emden, Sociology, Thomas Henry Huxley, United States, University of Dundee, University of Edinburgh, University of Mumbai, Urban planning, Victor Branford, Wilczek Land, Writers' Museum. Expand index (19 more) »

Aberdeenshire (historic)

Aberdeenshire or the County of Aberdeen (Coontie o Aiberdeen, Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is a historic county and registration county of Scotland.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Arthur Thomson (naturalist)

Sir John Arthur Thomson (8 July 1861 – 12 February 1933) was a Scottish naturalist who authored several notable books and was an expert on soft corals.

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Ballater

Ballater (Scottish Gaelic: Bealadair) is a burgh in Aberdeenshire, Scotland on the River Dee, immediately east of the Cairngorm Mountains.

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Camera obscura

Camera obscura (plural camera obscura or camera obscuras; from Latin, meaning "dark room": camera "(vaulted) chamber or room," and obscura "darkened, dark"), also referred to as pinhole image, is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen (or for instance a wall) is projected through a small hole in that screen as a reversed and inverted image (left to right and upside down) on a surface opposite to the opening.

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Camera Obscura (Edinburgh)

Camera Obscura and World of Illusions is a major tourist attraction in the Old Town, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Cebrià de Montoliu

Cebrià de Montoliu i de Togores (Palma 1873 - Albuquerque, New Mexico 1923) was a Catalan town planner and architect, social reformer, and one of the introducers of the Anglo-Saxon culture in Catalonia.

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Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Chambers's Encyclopaedia was founded in 1859Chambers, W. & R. in Chambers's Encyclopaedia.

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Collège des Écossais, Montpellier

The College Des Ecossais (Scots College) was founded by Patrick Geddes in 1924 as an international teaching establishment located in Montpellier, in south of France.

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Conservation (ethic)

Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection.

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Conurbation

A conurbation is a region comprising a number of cities, large towns, and other urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.

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David Eder

(Montague) David Eder (1865–1936) was a British psychoanalyst, physician, Zionist and writer.

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Dharavi

Dharavi is a locality in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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Earl of Hyndford

Earl of Hyndford was a title in the Peerage of Scotland.

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Eastern philosophy

Eastern philosophy or Asian philosophy includes the various philosophies that originated in East and South Asia including Chinese philosophy, Japanese philosophy, Korean philosophy which are dominant in East Asia and Vietnam, and Indian philosophy (including Buddhist philosophy) which are dominant in South Asia, Tibet and Southeast Asia.

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Ecology

Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.

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Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo, formerly the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an non-profit zoological park in Corstorphine, a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Evolution

Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland judges to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Francophile

A Francophile (Gallophile) is a person who has a strong affinity towards any or all of the French language, French history, French culture or French people.

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Frank Mears

Sir Frank Charles Mears PPRSA FRSE LLD (11 July 1880 – 25 January 1953) was an architect and Scotland's leading planning consultant from the 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon

Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada, the 13th since Canadian Confederation, and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India, the country's 22nd.

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Geddes Plan (Tel Aviv)

The Geddes Plan for Tel Aviv was the first master plan for Tel Aviv.

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Green politics

Green politics (also known as ecopolitics) is a political ideology that aims to create an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy.

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Grid plan

The grid plan, grid street plan, or gridiron plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, Ha-Universita ha-Ivrit bi-Yerushalayim; الجامعة العبرية في القدس, Al-Jami'ah al-Ibriyyah fi al-Quds; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second oldest university, established in 1918, 30 years before the establishment of the State of Israel.

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Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indore

Indore is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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James Cadenhead

James Cadenhead (12 January 1858 – 22 January 1927) was a Scottish landscape and portrait painter.

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Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.

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John Burdon-Sanderson

Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet, FRS, HFRSE D.Sc. (21 December 182823 November 1905) was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne, and a member of a well known Northumbrian family.

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John Duncan (painter)

John Duncan (1866-1945) was a Scottish painter.

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John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland

John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, (7 July 1860 – 11 January 1925) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician, soldier, peer, administrator and Privy Councillor who served as the Secretary of Scotland from 1905 to 1912 and the Governor of Madras from 1912 to 1919.

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Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.

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List of urban theorists

This is a list of urban theorists notable in their field, in alphabetical order.

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Longman

Longman, commonly known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.

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Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine (فلسطين; פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א"י), where "EY" indicates "Eretz Yisrael", Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity under British administration, carved out of Ottoman Syria after World War I. British civil administration in Palestine operated from 1920 until 1948.

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Meir Dizengoff

Meir Dizengoff (מאיר דיזנגוף, Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф Meer Yankelevich Dizengof, 25 February 1861 – 23 September 1936) was a Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv (1911-1922 as head of town planning, 1922-1936 as mayor).

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Montpellier

Montpellier (Montpelhièr) is a city in southern France.

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New Urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.

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Old Town, Edinburgh

The Old Town (Auld Toun) is the name popularly given to the oldest part of Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh.

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Palestine (region)

Palestine (فلسطين,,; Παλαιστίνη, Palaistinē; Palaestina; פלשתינה. Palestina) is a geographic region in Western Asia.

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Perth Academy

Perth Academy is a state comprehensive secondary school in Perth, Scotland.

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Philip Mairet

Philip Mairet (full name: Philippe Auguste Mairet; 1886–1975) was a designer, writer and journalist.

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Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play

Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play (April 11, 1806 – April 5, 1882) was a French engineer, sociologist and economist.

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Radhakamal Mukerjee

Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968), a leading thinker and social scientist of modern India, was Professor of Economics and Sociology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lucknow.

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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history.

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Ramsay Gardens

Ramsay Gardens is a block of sixteen private apartment buildings in the Castlehill area of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Raymond Unwin

Sir Raymond Unwin (2 November 1863 – 29 June 1940) was a prominent and influential English engineer, architect and town planner, with an emphasis on improvements in working class housing.

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Robert Burns (artist)

Robert Burns HRSA RSW (Edinburgh, 1869–1941) was a Scottish painter, limner and designer, of the Art nouveau and Decorative arts.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal School of Mines

The Royal School of Mines comprises the departments of Earth Science and Engineering, Materials and Bioengineering at Imperial College London.

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Royal Society of Edinburgh

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scottish Renaissance

The Scottish Renaissance was a mainly literary movement of the early to mid-20th century that can be seen as the Scottish version of modernism.

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SMS Emden

SMS Emden ("His Majesty's Ship Emden") was the second and final member of the of light cruisers built for the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Dundee

The University of Dundee (abbreviated as Dund. for post-nominals) is a public research university based in the city and royal burgh of Dundee on the east coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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University of Mumbai

The University of Mumbai, informally known as Mumbai University (MU), is one of the earliest state universities in India and the oldest in Maharashtra.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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Victor Branford

Victor Branford (25 September 1863 – 22 June 1930) was a British sociologist.

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Wilczek Land

Wilczek Land (Земля Вильчека; Zemlya Vil'cheka, Wilczek-Land), is a large island located at.

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Writers' Museum

The Writers’ Museum, housed in Lady Stair’s House at the Lawnmarket, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, presents the lives of three of the foremost Scottish writers: Robert Burns, Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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References

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