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paves paradise, builds huge downtown parking lots Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel "The shortage in parking stems from the Patrick Geddes plan from the turn of the last century, which did not take into consideration today's traffic needs," ... |
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honours Ballater scientist Deeside Today - Banchory,Scotland,UK By Danny Law Sir Patrick Geddes, a highly acclaimed Scottish scientist and town planner, was born in Ballater on October 2, 1854. ... |
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RACK Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India Patrick Geddes in India; Foreword by Ramachandra Guha (Select Books, 2007, pp 102, Price not mentioned) Patrick Geddes was one of the most dynamic and ... |
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deconstructed Jerusalem Post - Israel ... and in 1921 civil governor of Jerusalem and Judea - commissioned Scottish town planner Sir Patrick Geddes to draw up a master plan for the city. ... |
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cities Hindu - Chennai,India His contemporaries may have celebrated him as a Scottish Darwin, but Patrick Geddes was not bound by any particular discipline. He traversed the boundaries ... |
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starts and ends local Guardian Unlimited - UK Like Lawson and Clark half a century ago (and as I now recognise, behind them the ideas of Patrick Geddes) by working out from the known to the unknown. ... |
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dream come true as Phamie makes a date with a legend Scotsman - United Kingdom Sir Patrick Geddes, who designed Ramsay Garden, has inspired me in life because he came up with the phrase: 'By creating we think, by living we learn'. ... |
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time for historical Old Town? Guardian Unlimited - UK Opposition to the Mountgrange scheme has been greatly stiffened by its perceived affront to the memory of Sir Patrick Geddes, a Victorian-Edwardian polymath ... |
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bad gas" Guardian Unlimited - UK Though "ecology" was invented by two Victorian Scots, Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, and broadcast worldwide by two others: John Muir and Patrick Geddes, ... |
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flies the Atlantic" Guardian Unlimited - UK Perhaps the most fateful Scots-American partnership social planner was between the ecologist Patrick Geddes and the American town planner Lewis Mumford, ... |
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time to halt Caltongate plan' Scotsman - United Kingdom Caltongate is a large site that needs to be redeveloped but unless we follow the principles set out by Sir Patrick Geddes, who advocated that new ... |
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day in the life of Patrick Geddes Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India Environmentalist, thinker and city planner, Patrick Geddes spared no sphere of activity that contributed to the welfare of humanity. ... |
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Subverting and Destroying the Apparatus of Surveillance and Control" Infoshop News - USA Patrick Geddes, the great urban thinker from Edinburgh and friend of Kropotkin's, was the first one to see that the dependency of the city and its ... |
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up the countryside Perthshire Advertiser - Perthshire,UK Planning has also started for a Geddes Route to link Perth-Kinnoull and promote non-motorised access from the town to Kinnoull Hill. "Patrick Geddes is ... |
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ground Guardian Unlimited - UK The Indian Congress was founded in 1885 by Allan Hume, and Patrick Geddes was, next to Gandhi, the greatest influence on Nehru. James Bryce's federal ideas ... |
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Hartley Scotsman - United Kingdom It was to be a homage to Patrick Geddes and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Gardens had a special meaning for both. For Geddes, public or shared gardens make our ... |
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back time and retrieve Dizengoff Square Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel The square is part of the original urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, and was designed by architect Genia Averbuch. An idea to build a parking lot under the ... |
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full bloom Scotsman - United Kingdom ... as the EIF project is called, explores art and the shaping of the urban garden and takes its inspiration from the work of Sir Patrick Geddes. ... |
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lovers will be comforted by this Scotsman - United Kingdom ... historic buildings will be one to look out for." The Jardins Publics exhibition has been inspired by Edinburgh's celebrated town planner Sir Patrick Geddes. |
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shall remember Scotsman - United Kingdom A discursion into the writings of one of that building's most celebrated residents, Patrick Geddes, provides insight into the underlying ethos of the ... |
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must show city respect Scotsman - United Kingdom Back in the 1890s, Edinburgh's own Patrick Geddes called this "conservative surgery" - operating only where necessary. New developments need to draw ... |
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that knew no limits, and changed Scotland for ever The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK ... movement and artists such as Walter Crane and William Morris, towards Patrick Geddes's vision of an all-embracing "organic" education for Edinburgh. ... |
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garden comes out of the shadows Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK The garden was created more than 100 years ago by Sir Patrick Geddes, the 19th century sociologist and town planner who designed the Outlook Tower and ... |
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of the past explored in new project Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... and the personalities who lived, worked, learned or performed here, including David Hume, Patrick Geddes, Jack Kane and the cast of Monty Python." |
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Scottish books that will change your life Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Anyone walking through the Old Town (for the time being) could apply these words to Sir Patrick Geddes, the influential ecologist, urban planner, ... |
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trophies of knowledge Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Patrick Geddes, heir to the generalist ideals that Hunter's collection so magnificently illustrates, remarked that without art to preserve the human ... |
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flag, red dragon Scottish Left Review - UK In South Wales we may be getting closer to Patrick Geddes’ ‘Walestown’, where the capital (now with the prestige of Richard Rogers’ near-legislature and the ... |
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extra Guardian Unlimited - UK We need more of the Patrick Geddes triptych in our approach, ie being fit for planet, for people and purpose - something our planners have missed in many ... |
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trip to see the lights is fantastic Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Yet another change of ownership occurred in 1892 when Patrick Geddes took over and named it the Outlook Tower, regenerating the operation. ... |
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election, history’s tides Open Democracy - London,UK And in Fife, where the great Patrick Geddes undertook his first town-planning schemes in the 1890s, there's plenty of scope for a linear city - a necklace ... |
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the birth of a new registrar office Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK Other options include naming the building after Greyfriars Kirk, St Giles' Cathedral, George IV Bridge itself, town planner Sir Patrick Geddes, ... |
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in the depths as coral bleaching foreshadows a new ... Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK In particular, he is writing in opposition to the famous Edinburgh biologist Sir Patrick Geddes, who tried to apply biological lessons to the fields of ... |
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in its compass Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... about how we experience time and space, ideas current in artistic circles in Scotland through Bergson's friendship with Patrick Geddes. ... |
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new era begins |
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in the air Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv, Israel Goodovitch speaks of the contribution of Sir Patrick Geddes to planning Tel Aviv. In Paris, 150 years ago, Baron Osman planned a renewed and beautiful ... |
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conjectural history Guardian Unlimited - UK ... but a balanced civic industrialisation adapted to what the country's foremost social thinker, Patrick Geddes, called the "neotechnic" epoch, ... |
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of entitlement is nearly worthless Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... this of Craigmillar, and if that connection seems absurd remember Craigmillar was an idealistic project in a tradition that went back to Patrick Geddes. ... |
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much should a person consume? Down to Earth (subscription) - New Delhi,India Some of his strongest praise is heaped on the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes, the us thinker Lewis Mumford and the Indian ecologist—Guha’s ... |
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the right trail Perthshire Advertiser - Perthshire,UK Sir Patrick Geddes, one of the foremost thinkers in Victorian Britain, spent his early years being schooled in Perth before travelling the world and ... |
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what cost consumption? Hindu - Chennai,India In his list of true activists are Scottish internationalist Patrick Geddes, who toured India early in the 20th century and provided a perceptive analysis of ... |
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pleasant pane East Lothian Courier - Haddington,Scotland,UK With a £10000 budget, Kate spent most of last summer working on the panel, which commemorates Sir Patrick Geddes, the planner and scientist born in 1854 who ... |
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Tom, 1867-1942 libcom.org - London,UK He established a friendship there with Patrick Geddes, the biologist and town planner and persuaded him to bring over Elisée Reclus, the anarchist and ... |
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the time of his lives Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK The concept - first proposed seriously by the French poet Denis Saurat in 1924, though the term was bandied about by Patrick Geddes and MacDiarmid ... |
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takes panes to remember Geddes Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK According to architect Ben Tindall, chairman of the Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust and responsible for Edinburgh's Hub building, "he wanted to breathe life ... |
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internationalist Hindu - Chennai,India His name was Patrick Geddes, and he was born in 1854, in Scotland. After making a considerable reputation as a town planner in Europe, he came to India in ... |
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poor will inherit the earth. Yes, but how? HardNews Magazine - New Delhi,India But few have perhaps heard of Patrick Geddes, the biologist who was a contemporary of Lutyens and Baker, and who was summoned by the prince to replan Indore ... |
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of the Pallavas Hindu - Chennai,India Patrick Geddes, the famous Scotish town planner, visited Kanchipuram in 1914 and remarked that he has not seen a great town like this anywhere else. ... |
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beautiful re-union Guardian Unlimited - UK ... in regional planning: something that had its Scots origins, in the 18th-century model villages and the geographical and sociological efforts of Patrick Geddes. ... |
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horizons Scotsman - United Kingdom ... Here, in Old Town, New Town, No Town Gross.Max claim Patrick Geddes as their inspiration, restating the complexities that those dire planners ignored, leaving ... |
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nature meets the city Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada ... During the Hamilton visit, we learn about the City Beautiful movement and contributions made by Scottish planner Patrick Geddes (1854-1931) to urban design in ... |
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a nation found its voice Scotsman - United Kingdom ... The recovery of Scottish confidence in our own literature was a slow process. It began at the end of the 19th century with RL Stevenson and Patrick Geddes. ... |
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case for a tale of multiple cities Scotsman - United Kingdom ... I propose - picking up where the visionary planner Patrick Geddes left off a century ago - a counter-geography of Edinburgh, by thinking of the city beyond the ... |
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Scotswomen Scotsman - United Kingdom ... Among her friends were Lord Brougham, Patrick and Anna Geddes and, in Paris, Paul Desjardins. Her now-forgotten novels included ... |
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a step back in time on fine hill jaunt Scotsman - United Kingdom ... Road to the right. The zoo was first laid out in 1913 by Sir Patrick Geddes and Frank Mears, but has been continually developed. ... |
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needed to forge the future at Ravenscraig Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... He might start by recalling the work of that great Scottish thinker, Patrick Geddes, regarded as one of the founders of modern town planning, whose mantra ... |
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fades Guardian Unlimited - UK ... Our children may want to be dead, since we are far along the motorway to Necropolis, as the Scots social thinker Patrick Geddes called an environment wrecked ... |
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Brown Ally Selected to Fight Kirkcaldy Seat |
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Shades
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AZ for one track minds Scotsman - United Kingdom ... not mention Heathcote Williams' The Speakers (which follows four lunatic Hyde Park orators), Patrick Hamilton or the Edinburgh thinker Patrick Geddes as part ... |
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EDI's
Tron project wins RICS Scotland Regeneration Award |
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Edinburgh
- The Truman Show's architect dreams of a Highland ... |
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A
great flat if you like Tattoos |
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at risk of being 'clone city', says Charles Scotsman - United Kingdom ... Quoting Edinburgh's planning pioneer, Patrick Geddes, the prince said "town planning must be folk planning". "Tradition, in truth, is not about style. ... |
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Mike
Davis on a Planet of Slums |
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Lighthouse
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City's
gardens green for go |
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Godmother
of the American City |
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Seeds
sown for man who saved Edinburgh's Old Town |
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Good
plans pass test of time |
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Tel
Aviv, the white city |
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Tel
Aviv, The White City |
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City
children get ready to think globally |
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Sculptress
in on a glass act to honour Patrick Geddes |
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Great
Scot! Experience Glasgow and Edinburgh From $799 |
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Green
for go as gardens and parks to open gates to public |
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Top
artists compete to carve memorial for Old Town saviour |
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The
man who saved Edinburgh's Old Town |
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Mansion
could be good as zoo |
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feather in our cap Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... and the systems by which we seek to control its production, comes a further parallel with the social and moral thinking of another great Scot - Patrick Geddes. ... |
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hosts Tel Aviv architectural exhibit Canadian Jewish News - North York,ON,Canada ... Based on the designs of Scottish urban planner Sir Patrick Geddes, the northern part of Tel Aviv was to be modelled on a "European garden city.". ... |
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planned for new HQ Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... City leaders have already revealed plans to pay tribute to Sir Patrick Geddes, regarded as the father of modern town planning, by installing a glass panel ... |
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thread of pride Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... These might include, for example, Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations, David Hume (1711-76) and Patrick Geddes (1854-1932). ... |
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architectural legacy - and the audience Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel ... a renewed center for performing arts, one of high quality and high safety standards, in the spirit of the design concept of architect Patrick Geddes, the first ... |
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timeless appeal of Auld Reekie Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... For example, Patrick Geddes, arguable the father of the modern concept of "sustainable development", was drawn to the city in 1900 from Dundee; Richard Meier ... |
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off in Venice Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... artist Pistoletto has taken over a whole island in the lagoon for an idealistic educational project very reminiscent of the Third Paradise by Patrick Geddes. ... |
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for the skyline Peninsula On-line - Qatar ... In 1890 Patrick Geddes, an eccentric Scottish polymath, acquired an old observatory beside the castle, high above the Scottish capital, and turned it into the ... |
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a Tel Aviv for all ages Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel ... Since the first and only master plan for Tel Aviv, drafted by Scottish architect Patrick Geddes in the 1930s, the city had no master plan. ... |
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to art's utopia starts in Dundee Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK ... Back in the gallery, Sustersic has framed two pieces of writing by the great Arts and Crafts champion and social reformer Patrick Geddes in which the one-time ... |
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