ABSTRACT
Working throughout the British Empire, Geddes served various colonial societies, from the ruling British, through Indian princes to a rivalling Zionist hegemony. It can be claimed that Geddes’ initial practice both in India and in Palestine was used to enhance the British planning practice, being imported by British governors and obviously mirroring imperial sentiments; however, it seems that each of these different societies employed Geddes wishing to achieve differing goals, which either fitted in with the interests of other groups in their colonial setting, or rather competed against them. Geddes’ town planning scheme, devised to awaken a mutual transformation of environment and society, had been employed by British, by Indians, and by the Zionists to do just that, each for their own purposes.
