Tag: Patrick Geddes

Architecture, Processes( )Systems, Transdisciplinary, Urbanism

The Place of Architecture The Architecture of Place – Part I: The Identity of Places   

In the article The Identity of a Place: Place-Based Interventions Between Land and Society, I argued for the necessity of a place-based document or report—a tool that could assist practitioners working with places (architects, planners, policymakers, social scientists, and others) in making informed decisions whenever the character of a place must be understood from a holistic perspective—or, as I prefer…

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Processes( )Systems, Transdisciplinary, Urbanism

On the Modernity of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932)

1. Prologue: A New Vision of Nature ‘Since the mid-nineteenth century, many of the traditional certainties of science began to dissolve under the impact of new discoveries in physics, chemistry, and biology… The rigid boundaries separating these disciplines started to blur as a convergence emerged between the physical, biological, and even social sciences. Researchers began to observe striking similarities between…

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