Think Global, Act Local: The Life and Legacy of Patrick Geddes - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 191074509X ISBN 13: 9781910745090

Casa editrice: Luath Pr, 2015

Riassunto

It’s time to look again at the originator of the phrase for our times – ‘Think Global, Act Local’

Town planning. Interest-led, open-minded education. Conservation of worthwhile buildings. Community gardens. All are so central to our society that we think we invented them. In fact they were visualised by Sir Patrick Geddes, one of the greatest forward-thinkers of the modern world.

A Victorian Scot, Geddes went out of fashion after his death but in recent years he has been become almost a patron saint of the sustainable development movement. His ideas and his practical example continue to inspire the world, in the present and in the future.

This new edition of Think Global, Act Local incorporates much new work on Geddes and examines in particular the question of how this Scot from a fairly humble background, with no university degree, could be welcomed into the Darwin/Huxley circle, could be the confidant of two Viceroys and twice be offered a knighthood.

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Recensione:

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

L'autore:

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 House, the apex of the triangle whose other corners are the Outlook Tower and Ramsay Garden.

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• Editore: Luath Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 191074509X
• ISBN 13: 9781910745090
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 144
• Redattore: Stephen Walter