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Sir Patrick Geddes (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist,〔 Geddes wrote many unsigned articles on biology for the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' and also ''Chambers's Encyclopaedia''.〕 sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner (see List of urban theorists). He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology. He introduced the concept of "region" to architecture and planning and coined the term "conurbation".〔 * CASA News: (Patrick Geddes and the Digital Age )〕 An energetic Francophile, Geddes was the founder in 1890 of the Collège des Écossais (Scots College) an international teaching establishment in Montpellier, France and in the 1920s he bought the Château d'Assas to set up a centre for urban studies. == Biography == The son of Janet Stevenson and soldier Alexander Geddes, Patrick Geddes was born in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, and educated at Perth Academy. He studied at the Royal College of Mines in London under Thomas Henry Huxley between 1874 and 1877, never finishing any degree and he then spent the year 1877-1878 as a demonstrator in the Department of Physiology in University College London where he met Charles Darwin in Sanderson's Lab.〔M. Batty & S. Marshall (2008) Geddes at UCL: There was something more in town planning than met the eye! CASA Working Paper 138, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London ()〕 He lectured in Zoology at Edinburgh University from 1880 to 1888. He married Anna Morton (1857–1917), who was the daughter of a wealthy merchant, in 1886 when he was 32 years old. They had three children: Norah, Alasdair and Arthur. During a visit to India in 1917 Anna fell ill with typhoid fever and died, not knowing that their son Alasdair had been killed in action in France.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.latebloomers.co.uk/wforum/weacalendar/november.html )〕 Geddes wrote with J. Arthur Thomson an early book on ''The Evolution of Sex'' (1889).〔''Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner'' by Helen Meller,(pgs. 81-4), Routledge, 1993,〕 He held the Chair of Botany at University College Dundee from 1888 to 1919, and the Chair of Sociology at the University of Bombay from 1919 to 1924. He inspired Victor Branford to form the Sociological Society in 1903 to promote his sociological views. While he thought of himself primarily as a sociologist, it was his commitment to close social observation and ability to turn these into practical solutions for city design and improvement that earned him a "revered place amongst the founding fathers of the British town planning movement". He was a major influence on the American urban theorist Lewis Mumford. He was knighted in 1932, shortly before his death in Montpellier, France on 17 April 1932. Geddes was the father-in-law of the urban planner Frank Charles Mears. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Geddes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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