Geddes, Sir Patrick, Knight, sociologist, 1854-1932
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of typescript town-planning report on Jaffa and Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12423
Dates:
1925.
Drawings, photographs, maps, plans and prints, largely from the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition devised by Sir Patrick Geddes.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13319
Scope and Contents
The Cities and Town Planning Exhibition was originally conceived in conjunction with the first Town Planning Conference of 1910 organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects, at Burlington House, London, to mark the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. Patrick Geddes was asked to be its Director and used it to demonstrate his method of city survey. After the conference, Geddes toured the exhibition to cities interested in learning about the latest developments in...
Dates:
1649-1919, undated
Letters of Norah, Lady Mears, née Geddes, to her father, Sir Patrick Geddes, but also to her mother and brothers, 1908-1914.
File
Identifier: Acc.13852/1
Dates:
1908-1914.
Letters to Arthur Geddes including a photocopy of a letter of Wendy Wood on the death of his father. With a letter of Sir Patrick Geddes to his grandsons, Kenneth, Alan and Ian Mears, 1916-1923.
File
Identifier: Acc.13852/3
Dates:
1916-1923.
Nine townplanning reports, eight concerning India and one concerning Palestine, compiled by Sir Patrick Geddes.
File
Identifier: Acc.12497
Dates:
1914-1925.
Papers of Norah, Lady Mears, née Geddes
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13852/1-5
Dates:
1908-1931, undated.
Typsecript verse concerning Sir Patrick Geddes by Dr Arthur Geddes with related notes; printed `Brief Guide to the Scotland Room, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh`, undated; annotated typescript of `Patrick Geddes as a sociologist` by Dr Arthur Geddes; offprints of four published articles on Patrick Geddes.
File
Identifier: Acc.13661
Scope and Contents
i). Two typescript drafts, 1946, undated, of `Olympus and a Mortal Spirit : sonnet to a servant of the Gods, in memory and pressage ; (1854-1932), Patrick Geddes` , by Arthur Geddes, with incomplete comments on the sonnet and Patrick Geddes by Arthur Geddes.ii). Printed `Brief Guide to the Scotland Room, The Outlook Tower, Castlehill, Edinburgh`, undated, with annotations by Arthur Geddes.iii). Typescript, undated, of `Patrick Geddes as Sociologist`, a lecture given...
Dates:
1946-2015, undated
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- Correspondence. 2
- Photographs. 2
- Reports 2
- Broadsides. Notices. 1
- Drawings. Visual works. 1
- Edinburgh. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Edinburgh. Inhabited place. Longitude: -3.2167. Latitude: 55.9500. 1
- India. Asia. Subcontinent. Longitude: 77.0000. Latitude: 20.0000. 1
- Lectures. 1
- Letters. Correspondence. 1
- Maps. Cartographic materials. 1
- Notes. 1
- Offprints. 1
- Palestine. Middle East. Historical region. Longitude: 35.3333. Latitude: 31.9167. 1
- Photograph albums. 1
- Plans (orthographic projections). 1
- Poetry. 1
- Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Asia - Israel - Tel Aviv. Inhabited place. Longitude: 34.7667. Latitude: 32.0833. 1
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