PATRICK GEDDES CONTEMPRORY EVEN AFTER 150 YEARS

INTRODUCTION

THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY – PATRICK GEDDES

THE LIFE AND WORK OF PATRICK GEDDES PREFIGURES THE AGE IN WHICH WE NOW LIVE.

HE WAS A SOLITARY THINKER AND PLANNER WHICH BECAME A COLLECTIVE TASK FOR OUR GENERATION.

HE WAS FAR IN ADVANCE OF SUPPORTING ARMY OF ADMINISTRATION, TECHNICIANS AND ARCHITECTS WHICH HELPED IN FASTER DEVELOPMENT.

GEDDES WAS FIRST TO STUDY SOCIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES.

PATRICK GEDDES IN INDIAPATRICK GEDDES'S THOUGHT HAD TWO SIDES :

ASPECT ONE : SYSTEMATIC AND RIGOROUS TO AN EXTRAORDINARY DEGREE.•IT WAS BASED UPON A CARTOGRAPHY OF LIFE, MIND, AND SOCIETY •CREATED TO FACILITATE HIS OWN THINKING•SO THAT HIS IDEAS WOULD BE RELATED, IN SPACE, TIME, AND FUNCTION, TO THE CONCRETE SITUATION FROM WHICH THEY WERE MOMENTARILY ABSTRACTED•UNLIKE THE THOUGHT OF THE SPECIALIST -THE ABSTRACTION AS IF IT WERE SELF-SUFFICIENT.

ASPECT TWO: TO BE EQUALLY FUNDAMENTAL•ARE OF A MORE PERSONAL ORDER AND LESS CAPABLE OF GENERAL APPLICATION. •BUT THIS SIDE REQUIRES SPECIAL STUDY AND DISCRIMINATING USE•MUCH OF IT REPELS, AT FIRST GLANCE, THOSE WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF GEDDES'S THINKING, AND WHO DO NOT APPRECIATE THE SOUNDNESS OF HIS RESULTS.

PATRICK GEDDES – THE PLANNERAS A PLANNER GEDDES THOUGHT OF- •REDUCING THE NUMBER AND WIDTH OF PAVED STREETS IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS• TURNING THE LAND SAVED INTO MORE USABLE FORMS OF OPEN SPACE, WERE TYPICAL GEDDESIAN INNOVATIONS.•INCREASE THE NUMBER OF GARDENS AND PLAYGROUNDS, •TO PLANT FRUIT TREES, •TO RETAIN, IN AN EFFECTIVELY SANITARY STATE, THE EXISTING TANKS. •RESPECT FOR THE LAND AND FOR AGRICULTURAL PROCESSES

THE OLD TRADITIONS IN INDIA INCLUDED A NUMBER OF TYPICAL PLANS FOR THE LAYOUT OF TOWNS, . SANITARY REGULATIONS WERE NEGLECTED, ENCROACHMENTS AND OVER-BUILDINGS WERE PREVALENT

THERE ARE TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT, EACH CONTAINING TOWN PLANNERS, ARCHITECTS, AND GARDENERS.

FIRSTLY- MANY CITIES, IMPOSING NEW STREETS HAVE BEEN LAID OUT WITHOUT SURVEY THE DIAGNOSTIC SURVEY OF THEIR SURROUNDING QUARTER AND CONSTRUCTED WITHOUT REFERENCE TO LOCAL NEEDS OR POTENTIALITIES

SECONDLY -HAPPILY THERE IS ANOTHER SCHOOL OF PLANNING, OF BUILDING AND OF GARDENING THAT INVESTIGATES AND CONSIDERS THE WHOLE SET OF EXISTING CONDITIONS

IDEA FOR REMODELLING CITY

ENVIRONMENT AND ORGANISM, PLACE AND PEOPLE, ARE INSEPARABLE BUT, SINCE THE ESSENTIAL UNIT OF A CITY IS THE HOME, IT PATRICK GEDDES IN INDIA WILL BE AS WELL TO START BY EXAMINING ITS ESPECIAL REQUIREMENTS.THE TRANSITION IN AN INDIAN CITY, FROM NARROW LANES AND EARTHEN DWELLINGS TO SMALL STREETS, GREAT STREETS AND BUILDINGS OF HIGH IMPORTANCE AND ARCHITECTURAL BEAUTY FORM AN INSEPARABLY INTERWOVEN STRUCTURE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GROUP MEMBERS AKANKSAH BALPANDE 1205GEETA GUJARATHI 1220SHREYA MAHAJAN 1235POONAM WADEKAR 1267MRUNALINI WALANJ 1268

https://archive.org/stream/PatrickGeddesIndia/Patrick%20Geddes#page/n69/mode/2up

http://www.the-essayist.org/2014/04/geddes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Geddes