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Patrick Geddes 1886
Patrick Geddes 1886

ā€œA biologist who turned later in life to city planning [Patrick] Geddes had begun a series of civic surveys and town revitalization projects in Edinburgh in the 1890s, publishing his results in a series of books and reports that fired young [Lewis] Mumford’s interest in the city. Mumford did not set out to be a city planner or an architect, however. His task, he decided after reading Geddes’ Cities in Evolution, would be ā€˜to enlarge the vision’ of those who did the actual planning and building.

Patrick Geddes taught Mumford a new way of looking at the cities, an approach based upon direct observation and a biologist’s sensitivity to organic relationships.ā€

The Lewis Mumford Reader edited by Donald L. Miller

Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)