文档介绍：biopolis
Patrick Geddes and the City of Life
volker m. welter
foreword by
iain boyd whyte
biopolis
biopolis
Patrick Geddes and the City of Life
volker m. welter
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Welter, Volker.
Biopolis : Patrick Geddes and the city of life / Volker M. Welter.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-23211-1 (hc. : alk. paper)
1. Geddes, Patrick, Sir, 1854–1932. 2. City planners––Great
Britain–Biography. 3. City planning––Great Britain––History. 4. City
planning––Philosophy. I. Title.
W45 2001
711′.4′092––dc21
[B] 00-054820
for Elisabeth &
Werner Welter
List of Illustrations viii
List of Tables xiii
Contents Acknowledgments xiv
Foreword by Iain Boyd Whyte xvi
Introduction 1
1“Angling for Cities!” 6
The Scientist of Life 9
The Economics of Nature 13
The Economics of Cities 16
The Order of Cities 17
The Revolt against Reason 19
Toward a Larger Modernism 22
2Patrick Geddes’s Theory of the City 26
Victorian Britain and Historical Models 28
The Notation of Life 31
From Individual munal Psychology 40
Geddes’s Theory of the City: A Platonic Reading 46
3 The City and Geography 54
Town and Country 55
The Valley Section 60
Edinburgh and Its Region: A Northern Athens and Its Polis 66
The Region-City: A Step toward Conurbations and the World City 70
Regional and Universal 76
The Outlook Tower 78
4 The City in History 82
The City in eenth-Century Th