Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner (Routledge Geography, Environment, and Planning Series)

"It is not the first biography of Geddes, but as a work of scholarship it is probably the best."-"Town and Country Planning ." . . rich in detail and perceptive in analysis, unquestionably a work of real scholarship on Geddes which is unlikely to be bettered."-"Planning Perspectives ." . . a masterpiece of intellectual biography . . . if anyone wants to know the full and rich truth about this engaging, protean giant of post-Darwinian intellectual life, they must turn to Helen Meller. After hers, there is no need for further biographies of Geddes."-"History Workshop Journal

One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning, providing a scholarly yet accessible account for those interested in the history of planning, urban design, social theory and nineteenth century British history.

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