Patrick Geddes quotes

Patrick Geddes was a Scottish scientist, biologist, and pioneering town planner, renowned for his innovative theories on urban planning and sociology. His holistic approach emphasized the relationship between people, their environment, and the development of sustainable cities. He inspired generations of urban planners and contributed significantly to the study of cities and communities. Here are 4 of his quotes:

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

Patrick Geddes

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

Patrick Geddes

Each of the various specialists remains too closely concentrated upon his single specialism, too little awake to those of the others. Each sees clearly and seizes firmly upon one petal of the six-lobed flower of life and tears it apart from the whole.

Patrick Geddes