[ebooks] Chinese Zodiac by Isabella Alston; Kathryn Dixon at Arts-Photography

Description

Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This book studies the various; and even opposing ways; in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day; providing a new reading of his life; writing and plans. Geddes scrutiny is presented as a case study for Town Planning as a whole. Tying together for the first time key concepts in cultural geography and colonial urbanism; the book proposes a more vigorous historiography; exposing hidden narratives and past agendas still dominating the disciplinary discourse. Written by a cultural geographer and a town planner; this book offers a rounded; full-length analysis of Geddes vision and its material manifestation; functioning also as a much needed critical tool to evaluate Modern Town Planning as an academic and practical discipline. The book also includes a long overdue model of his urban theory.