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  2. Patrick Geddes - Wikipedia

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    Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, [2] sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology .

  3. Think globally, act locally - Wikipedia

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    [10] Geddes was also responsible for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning. He made significant contributions to the consideration of the environment. Geddes believed in working with the environment, versus working against it. [11] Town planning is important to understanding of the idea "think globally, act locally".

  4. Theories of urban planning - Wikipedia

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    Patrick Geddes (1864-1932) was the founder of regional planning. [22] His main influences were the geographers Élisée Reclus and Paul Vidal de La Blache, as well as the sociologist Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play. [23] From these he received the idea of the natural region. [24]

  5. Garden city movement - Wikipedia

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    The Garden City movement also influenced the Scottish urbanist Sir Patrick Geddes in the planning of Tel Aviv, Israel, in the 1920s, during the British Mandate for Palestine. Geddes started his Tel Aviv plan in 1925 and submitted the final version in 1927, so all growth of this garden city during the 1930s was merely "based" on the Geddes Plan.

  6. Portal:Scotland/Selected biographies/27 - Wikipedia

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    Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology. His works contain one of the earliest examples of the 'think globally, act locally ...

  7. Jesuit-aided effort benefiting former slaves' descendants ...

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    An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.

  8. Bryan Kohberger looks to dodge death penalty with page from ...

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    As Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's trial approaches, his defense is drawing comparisons to another high-profile case that rocked the state, the murder trial of "cult mom" Lori ...

  9. Transect (urban) - Wikipedia

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    Patrick Geddes, Valley Section, 1909. The concept of the transect was borrowed from ecology. Ecological transects are used to describe changes in habitat over some gradient such as a change in topography or distance from a water body.