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The Sir Patrick Geddes
Memorial Trust has a policy of occasional publication of Geddes-centred
or Geddes-related material.
An order form can
be found here.The current stock is described
below:

1.
THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL The Life and Legacy of Patrick Geddes
129pp, 8pp colour
plates, 26 b/w illustrations, pub Luath Press. £8
ISBN 1-84282-079-6
Published to coincide with the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Geddes
on 2 October 2004, this is an impressionistic examination of PG's life,
influence and how that influence has waxed and waned - or waned and waxed.
Obviously, earlier sources have been drawn upon, but 'Think Global...'
is not just a rehash of 'other men's flowers' nor is it merely 'cheap
and cheerful'. There are some new angles and re-emphases and there are
quite definite contributions to knowledge.Virtually all the illustrations
were specially created for the book, or had not appeared in print before
in any reasonably accessible text. The contributors have made over their
authorial rights to the Trust.
The contents are as follows:
Think Global, Act Local - Walter Stephen
Patrick Geddes - the Life - Walter Stephen
Finding Geddes Abroad - Sofía Leonard
Patrick Geddes: Environment and Culture - Murdo Macdonald
Patrick Geddes: Regional Survey and Education - A Historical Perspective
to the 1970s - Kenneth Maclean
A Letter from India - Narayani Gupta
Patrick Geddes - the Legacy - Walter Stephen

2. GRIEVE ON GEDDES
Professor Sir Robert
Grieve's Appreciation of the Effect of Sir Patrick Geddes's Thinking on
His Planning Work in Scotland. 54 pp, B/W illustrations, pub SPGMT, £3.50
ISBN 0-9518273-0-8
The sub-title explains all. It is a monograph written by one distinguished
Scotsman about another, with the following headings:
Introduction, Prologue
Geddes - The Man
My Apprenticeship
The Clyde Valley Regional Plan
The University
The Highlands and Islands Development Board
Final Reflections, Epilogue
Appendix I - Quotations
Appendix II - The Letters of Charles Taylor
A must for anyone interested in the development of ideas, about modern
living and Planning in Scotland in the twentieth century.
3.
THE GEDDES STUDENT PRIZE
The Geddes Awards
for Environmental Excellence and Enterprise. 24 pp, pub PGMT, 50p
Over the years, The Trust has sponsored various schemes seeking to engage
students in thinking about Geddes and how to tackle issues which would
have engaged him, had he been alive today. This occasional paper looks
at the Geddes' Awards for a number of years and publishes brief reports
from the successful students.This paper demonstrates the wide effect of
Geddes's thought on new generations and it is a useful aid to learning
about how today's young people think about major issues.

4.
FABRIC AND FUNCTION
A Century of School
Building in Edinburgh 1872-1972. 118 pp, 48 b/w photographs, 12 b/w illustrations,
pub Hills of Home, 1996, £2.50
ISBN 978-0-9555190-1-7
From its origins as a dissertation which won the Research Prize of the
Scottish Council for Research in Education in 1979, this study has been
extended and updated to take account of change since 1972. Essentially
the influences on school building are analysed and then sample schools
are examined to show how architects took account of these influences in
their designs. Although centred on Edinburgh, there is an assessment of
the interplay of local needs and national trends.
As well as an introduction and a conclusion, there are the following chapters:
Roofs over Heads
The Early Board Schools (1872-1890)
The Central Hall and the Drive to Secondary Education (1890-1906)
Health, Hygiene and Finance (1911-1951)
Towards Functionalism (1953-1972)

5.
EXPLORATION
Get to know your
own Place and Work and Folk. 24pp, 2 b/w illustrations, pub PGMT, 2007,
£2.50
ISBN 1-905222-88-2
Edited and Introduced by Kenneth MacLean and Walter Stephen, this is a
reprint of a Geddes-inspired field exploration manual published by the
Leplay Society and edited by his god-daughter. The Introduction places
the manual within the wider context of Geddes-led Regional Survey.

6. A VIGOROUS INSTITUTION
Patrick Geddes, The
Living Legacy 140pp, 8pp colour plates, 21 b/w illustrations, pub Luath
Press, 2007, £8
ISBN 978-0-9555190-0-0A
Collection of essays, two posthumous, commemorating Geddes and exploring
his legacy. A distinguished panel of writers puts forward new knowledge
about influences on Geddes and reveals even wider influences than suspected
of Geddes on our own time.
Contents:
Introduction - Walter Stephen
The Regeneration of Edinburgh by Patrick Geddes - Aubrey Manning
Making Planning Respected and Respectable: Lessons from Geddes - James
Mackinnon
Universalism and the Genus Loci: Geddes in Cyprus, Italy, Catalonia and
Japan - Mike Small
Bengal Boats and Rickshaw Roads - Kenny Munro
Overkill - Frank Spaven
Dunbar to Berwick - a special part of the East Coast Main Line - Frank
Spaven
Where was Peter Geddes born? - Walter Stephen
The Light Before the Darkness - Anne-Michelle Slater
Miss Geddes's Dresden Establishment - Walter Stephen
Through A Glass Clearly: Behind the Photographs of the First Survey of
Edinburgh by Patrick Geddes - Sofia Leonard
Cartoons by Hendrik Willem Van Loon: Geddes, Van Loon and Mumford - Walter
Stephen
A Geddes Chronology - Contributors
Select Bibliography

7.
WHERE WAS PATRICK GEDDES BORN? THE LAST WORD?
48pp, 6 plates, 2
b/w illustrations, pub Hills of Home for the Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial
Trust, 2008, £3.
ISBN 978-0-9555190-2-4
In a Da Vinci Code style of narrative, Walter Stephen describes the search
for the Patrick Geddes birthhouse (unknown until 2007). He brings forward
hitherto unknown youthful influences on the great man and observes the
special relationship between Deeside and the Royal family.
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