CITC09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 1: Machine Industry, United States, Patrick Geddes
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Outlook tower in edinburgh he created a model for what he wanted to see everywhere, Regional planning began with patrick geddes, an unclassificable polymath. Geddes absorbed their creed of anarchistic communism based on free confederations. The birth of regional planning: edinburgh, new york, london 1900-1940 of autonomous regions. Gedes got his idea of the natural region, as exemplified by his famomus vallley section, which he based on the ideas of reclus. And it is significant, that like them, he preffered to study the region in its purest form, far from the shadow of the giant metropolis. British planner patrick, civic survey in actuality is a sinister and complicated bsuiness the more so since it must widen to embrace the region and finally the world. Geddes was indebted to geography and to the french tradition. Elisee reclus and peter kropotkin were both geographers; but both were also anarchists.
