Cities in evolution : An introduction to the town planning movement and to the study of civics

Cities in evolution : An introduction to the town planning movement and to the study of civics

Geddes Patrick, planification urbaine, urbanisme, utopie, villes mondiales, habitants, Allemagne, étude des villes, gouvernement des villes, esprit des villes

Extract from the preface:   From opening chapter to concluding summary it will be plain that this book is neither a technical treatise for the town-planner or city councillor, nor a manual of civics for the sociologist or teacher, but is of frankly introductory character. Yet it is not solely an attempt at the popularisation of the reviving art of town planning, of the renewing science of civics, to the general reader. What it seeks is to express in various ways the essential harmony of all these interests and aims; and to emphasise the possibilities of readier touch and fuller co-operation among them. All this is no mere general ethical or economic appeal, but an attempt to show, with concrete arguments and local instances, that these too long separated aspects of our conduct of life and of affairs may be reunited in constructive citizenship. Despite our contemporary difficulties industrial, social, and political, there are available around us the elements of a civic uplift, and with this, of general advance to a higher plane of industrial civilisation.   Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist and urban thinker. His two chief works in the field of urban studies are 'City development' (1904) and 'Cities in evolution' (1915)   NB : This work is available from the Internet Archive in multiple formats : online, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, Full Text, and DjVu. We recommend the PDF format (45 MB), both for ease of reading and because it has been scanned using OCR, which allows searches of the full text.  

Patrick Geddes

Williams

1915

409

Ouvrage

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