ABSTRACT
Arthur Geddes, Edward McGegan, and Frank Mears lectured and published several papers concerning Geddes between 1933 and 1940, calling planning professionals to adhere to his advice. 1 Lacking historical documentation, Boardman's first biography (1944) relied heavily on Geddes’ obituaries and earlier descriptions, the result being a very personal account and a very poetic one. 2 Howard Odum of the University of North Carolina described Boardman's as a long-needed volume, it being a duty to learn Geddes for his contributions to sociology and town planning, concerning the unity of nature and completeness of the individual, community, and nation, and the structure and function of regionalism. 3 Generally the discussion of Geddes in this period is not very wide and restricted to periodical circumstances or local professional discussion of his work.
