Patrick Geddes and Town Planning

<p>Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This book studies the various and even opposing ways in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day providing a new reading of his life writing and plans. </p><p>Geddes' scrutiny is presented as a case study for Town Planning as a whole. Tying together for the first time key concepts in cultural geography and colonial urbanism the book proposes a more vigorous historiography exposing hidden narratives and past agendas still dominating the disciplinary discourse. Written by a cultural geographer and a town planner this book offers a rounded full-length analysis of Geddes' vision and its material manifestation functioning also as a much needed critical tool to evaluate Modern Town Planning as an academic and practical discipline. The book also includes a long overdue model of his urban theory. </p>