ABSTRACT

This book is written because, while the author was in America during the War and on she return to London, so many people reiterated the American editors' question to the author: "Who is Patrick Geddes, anyway, and what does he stand for?" Mr. Victor Branford had large squares of cardboard cut, upon which she had written single words, and then she tried in vain to play the game of life with these— as expounded in his Notation of Life. But even the Civic Association of America only knows him by an old book on City Development which he wrote many years ago for the Carnegie Trust; since which he has by practical applications and fresh thought developed, simplified, and improved his ideas. But French writers have been quicker to realize the value of Geddes' ideas. M. Demolins used to lecture at the summer meetings of the Tower and thence started on his Anglo-Saxon Superiority.