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作者

来源

LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING,Vol.166,P.27-36

语言

英文

关键字

Technics; Civics; Regional planning; Planning theory; Occupy movement; Patrick Geddes

作者单位

[Young, Robert F.] Univ Texas Austin, Community & Reg Planning Program, Austin, TX 78712 USA. Young, RF (reprint author), Univ Texas Austin, Community & Reg Planning Program, Austin, TX 78712 USA. E-Mail: young@utexas.edu

摘要

Patrick Geddes is a recognized founder of urban and regional planning. Despite this accolade, a review of US planning programs reflects Geddes's work largely absent from planning pedagogy. Recently interest in Geddes has revived in several fields. However, many researchers, particularly in planning, still criticize his ideas as lacking a coherent theoretical framework or as obsolete in addressing the power relations in contemporary cities and social movements. In this paper, I seek to augment recent work on Geddes as well as explore criticisms of his approach. I examined published and archival manuscripts dealing with Geddes's approach to planning. I argue Geddes did, across his voluminous output, frame a consistent planning theory valuable for contemporary environmental planning and social movements. I conclude by calling for wider reintroduction of Geddes's ideas into planning education and research. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.